Prototype Photos

Design 1

Comments Observations on the above design:

Users had some difficulty understanding how to add photos inside the photo gallery widget. We had hoped that having a "click to add photos" dummy picture in the gallery would give sufficient hints, but we found that the widget was still quite foreign.

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We wanted to give users the ability to save photographers and remove them from their search results. The goal was to make the search results page be the list of candidates which users would narrow down after viewing profiles. However, both the "remove" and 'save search" were not visible and no one noticed that they could even do this.

Design 2

Observations on the above design:

We hoped that users would just press "enter" when their search was done and not require a "search" button. Most users were confused by this behavior and told us that they were confused because there was no search button.

The design has "Continue"/"OK" buttons on the left and "Cancel"-type buttons on the right. Users found this to be foreign.

Users were confused by the presence of the "Random Pictures from Today" widget in the home page. They weren't sure what it was and tried to interact it even when their task didn't require interacting with the widget.

We had a textbox which caused confusion about the proper format to enter times (e.g. am/pm or military time, colon or no colon etc). We should replace this with the time widget from calendaring applications.