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Collaborator View
All Notes Pane
Task View
Bulletin Board
Iteration Two
Main Pane Tabs
These tabs let the user switch between different views while exploring a specific task or bucket.
Extras Pane (Settings and Logout for now)
We realized that a settings window was missing in the first iteration, so this was added. The ads on the side are just a placeholder for now (we wanted to see what people's reaction to ads in the application would be... and they didn't seem to mind!).
Bulletin Board Tab
All Notes Tab 1
All Notes Tab 2(zoomed in)
Collaborators Tab
Task View
Commonalities
Commonalities
There are a few things that did not change at all between the two iterations of our paper prototype, as they were received well in the first iteration:
New Bucket Button
Adding a new Bucket is as easy as clicking a button in the task view
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Removing a collaborator results in an alert to make sure the action was not an error
Task View
The lists of buckets and tasks, always visibile on the left-hand side of the screen.
Briefing
BucketList is a shared task-management application, allowing users to easily create group to-do lists.
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One user was annoyed that she could not type on the sticky notes, only in the "all notes" section at the bottom. This makes the interface less learnable for her, as her initial thought was to type on the note (even though it wasn't a typing curser). In addition, if the user is looking at the bulletin board, it is much easier and more efficient to begin typing on the note, instead of navigating to the bottom to add the note. To fix this, we will allow for users to type on the stickies or in the "all notes" section , as (this was introduced in the the second iteration), but we do have to be careful about visibility of 'typing' mode versus 'viewing' or 'moving' mode of the stickies.
Redundancy of Bulletin Board
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Many users commented that the bulletin board and the list of all notes was more on the redundant side. The Main goal of the of the bulletin board feature was to allow users to filter out which notes were most important to them allowing quicker access and better visibility to those notes. We are currently working on a way to make that a lot more clearer to the users.
Settings
Issue: Errors
Complexity: 2
UI Severity: 4
Although this was not related to our given tasks, one user commented that there was no "settings" page in our design. This means that if a user wants to change information given during sign-up, there is no way to correct it. In addition, there is no way to set specific settings to customize an account (although, at this point, we do not have this option anyways). In the second iteration, a settings page was added.
Personalization
Issue: Visibility, Errors
Complexity: 2
UI Severity: 1
One user commented that it would be nice to have some personalization, such as a profile picture for each user. This can also reduce errors and add to the visibility of the system, as when adding collaborators it is easier to see which user is being added. This was added for our second iteration.
Posting Stickies
Issue: Efficiency
Complexity: 4
UI Severity: 2
In the second iteration, two users commented that posting stickies was difficult because the two views (bulletin board and all notes) were not visible at the same time. This meant that the task asking people to post a sticky to the board and then rearrange the board required users to switch between views, and if they were doing this multiple times it would present an efficiency error. Because this problem was introduced in the second iteration, we didn't get to address a solution yet, but it means we have to re-think how we are presenting the bulletin board (or if we need it at all).
Prototype Iteration
A couple of key features were changed for the second iteration of our paper prototype, based on the observations from above.