Prototype Photos

Prototype Version 1.0

1. Home 

2. Search

4. Profile

5. Schedule

6.  Invitation Response

7. Review Page

8. Meet-Up

Briefing

This application is intended to find and schedule meetups with other dogs in your locality. For this scenario, you may assume:

• You have already created a profile for your dog.
• You are currently logged into the website.

Scenario Tasks

Task 1 : Respond to the invitation from 'Lassy'

Task 2 : Search for dogs in your locality, and schedule a meetup with 'Cupcake'

Task 3 : Review a previous meetup with 'Allen'

Observations

Summary of User Testing Round 1:

Home Page
- There was a learnability issue with the "History" section since the intended use was not clear to the users. Users took
  time to understand that this section could be used to review previous meetups. One user clicked on the "History"
  title expecting to see all past meetups.
- Users suggested that your own dog's Profile Information need not be displayed at the top of the home page.

Search Page
- Search bar placeholder shouldn't only show an address. Two users felt that this they were expected to enter a complete
  address conforming to the placeholder rather than a general location.
- Multiple users suggested that the Search bar should have auto-complete capability for better efficiency

Schedule Page
- There were multiple learnability issues with this page. Multiple users struggled to use this page to schedule meet-ups,
  warranting a rework of this page.
- It was unclear as to which dog's schedule was being shown in the calendar.
- Having the Date and Time fields on the same page, but having auto-populate capability (by clicking on calendar) for only
  the date field and manual input for the time field confused the users due to inconsistency.
- The current day was not indicated on the calendar, further hindering the users while selecting a date for the meet-up.
- Users suggested having an auto-complete option for the location (based on previous entries / popular locations) along
  with an option for a pop-up with a map-view.

Profile
- There was a concern regarding negative reviews being shown on the profile page of a dog. One user was not comfortable
  having their name showing up along with a negative comment they posted for a particular.
- Additionally there was suggestion to show a simple rating which would be easier to compare dogs rather than having to
  read all the comments in the page to judge if the dog was a suitable match for their own dog.

Summary of User Testing Round 2:

Home Page
- All three users suggested to remove the calendar and just keeping the list of upcoming meet-ups since it was confusing,
  while one suggested having a tab to toggle between list view and calendar
- There was a Learnability issue with the buttons on the list of upcoming events. Users weren't sure whether the button
  would lead to the schedule page or the profile page
- One user suggested pushing the upcoming events to the top of the page since it seemed to be the most relevant section.

Invitation Response
- Two users selected the "Suggest a new time" option in the Invitation Response task. This lead to the schedule page
  (originally designed for Schedule Meetup task) and had to switch back and forth for the

Prototype Iteration

Changes from the initial iteration to the second iteration

1. Home Page

• Remove profile
• Schedule a meetup by clicking the upcoming calendar
• Remove affordance for history
• Switch upcoming meetings to the left
• Change history to past events

2. Find Page

• Placeholder should support exact and similar locations

3. Schedule Page

• Show both calendars, or show busy/free information
• Autocomplete Map, Date and Time entries on the schedule page or popups
• Buttons look like pictures
• Separate date from time. It’s ambiguous. Possibly put it on the next line
• Show current date

4. Profile

• Don’t show commenters name if they are negative
• Show ratio of people who met up and who left comments
• Owners can only see positive/negative reviews