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The "Speak" label on the chat feature of the stream player itself is misleading. One user held it down and tried to actually speak into it, when it actually just enters what you typed in the text box into the chat.
Prototype iteration
Between prototypes, we overhauled how the history bar worked, since users simply weren't getting the old design. We made it more clear that the history bar represented the history by adding a label "Recent Streams" and also making visible the just-watched stream in the history bar when the user watches a stream. To make this change visible, we changes the stream viewer from a lightbox style viewer (the kind that centers the media in the center of the screen, and darkens the rest of the page) with a simple inline viewer.
We also added a title label to the main panel for better visibility.TODO