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Jennifer creates a new project, inviting the rest of her group to be part of it. Jennifer writes the first section of the fic, and posts it. Troll reads Jennifer’s section and comments on it, offensively. Jennifer uses her power as a moderator to delete Troll’s comment.
- Designs
- Design 1
Analysis of the design
- Learnability: The design uses mostly conventional arrangements(ex. sign in/sign out/my account at top right corner, click on site logo to get back to Home screen, the search box, use of familiar widgets) and most important operations are labeled, so users with some web experience would get used to it quickly. Moderator actions could take somewhat longer to get used to.
- Visibility: When adding to a pre-existing chapter, there's an option to view previous portions in the chapter. Different modes of dealing with a fiction(moderate/contribute/read) are clearly visible from the sidebar and the screen arrangement.
- Efficiency: This design takes somewhat wizard-like approach for many operations, leading users from one screen to another. While the tasks covered here(creating a new fiction, contributing to one, taking moderator actions) are not done very frequently, some frequent users might feel that the design has too many steps. You have to switch between separate modes for different operations even when you have full permission, and this might decrease the efficiency. The floating sidebar that has the mode switch buttons are supposed to help alleviate this. The sidebar also helps readers switch between different chapters efficiently as well.
- Error prevention: Irreversible actions like deleting a fiction or deleting a comment call up confirmation dialogues so that there's slim chance of accidentally deleting things.
Overall, the design is familiar, beginner-friendly and provides a lot of guidance to users.
- Design 2
- Main page. Jennifer clicks the large button at the bottom of the scene to log in
- Once logged in, Jennifer sees this page, listing the projects she's working on, and the projects she has saved as her favourites
- By clicking the Create button at the bottom of the screen, Jennifer navigates to a page allowing her to create a new project
- Jennifer saves the new project and begins working on it
- After Jennifer has posted her new section, and left, Troll reads Jennifer's section and posts a rude comment
- Jennifer, returning, uses her power as moderator to delete the comment by clicking the underlined delete below the comment. A confirmation dialogue will pop up to ensure that she realizes that she is deleting that particular comment.
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