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Prototype photos
"Introduction" Page
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"User's profile" page
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"Create a trip" page
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"World Map" Page
Briefing
“World Insider” is a network website, which allows friends to share travel experiences. The idea behind it is that users that share the same interests and travel standards can connect over the website and share their genuine unbiased knowledge. A tip from friends you trust is much more useful than multiple tips from random, unknown people online.
This website offers a fast way to create a trip according to your standards.
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Log in to your home page.
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Task 2: Create trip
You just got back from a trip and you cannot wait to share - all the tips and amazing things you saw and did - with your friends.
Therefore, add a “trip” to your profile including basic info (like destination and date), top things to do there and upload 5 photos.
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Task 3: Add Friends
It's time to expand your network on our website.Add the friend, who told you about this website, and, thus, already has an account.
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You feel like traveling to Monte Carlo. Find all the cool things that you “have to do” in Monte Carlo, from friends that have already been there and have updated their profiles appropriately.
Observations
User 1:
1) This user realized during Task 2 that there is no "Save' button. The "Save" button is absolutely necessary to store all the information you wish to share.
2) In the "User's Profile" page, we show the Top 5 places, but we do not specify if they are the top 5 places that we have been or the top 5 places that our friends have been.
It is useful for friends, who visit the user's profile, to see his Top 5 places, and, thus, we will make it obvious that it is the user's Top 5 places and not their friends'. Another possibility, which might be
more useful for the user, is to be able to see the overall Top 5 places of all his friends, but we will not implement this.
3) The link "Search" on the top bar is confusing. (You can see this in the 3rd and 4th picture above)
We originally put it there so that you can search for everything there is on the site (trips, friends etc), but all three users were clicking it for almost everything instead of following other links.
User 2:
1) The "+Add trip" on the user profile picture was not obvious to this user and, thus, we should make it bigger and relocate it, since it is one of the most important features. This is more of a learnability
issue and for users that have been on our page for two or more times, it should not be a problem, but we will try to make it as easy as possible for all users.
2) The "Top Things to Do" should be obligatory, when the user creates a trip. We forgot to put a star next to it and, thus, the user created the trip without filling out that field. We consider that the most important
part of the Trip.
3) In the world map (Picture 4), we pop up information for each city. In fact, we pop up a list of friends, who have been in this place. Their names should be links to the user profiles.
Also, we could have (below their name) the "one liner" that they used for that trip. This would allow the users to have a quick idea about that city.
User 3: