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You feel like traveling to Athens. Find all the cool things that you “have to do” in Athens, from friends that have already been there and have updated their profiles appropriately.
User 1: Female McGill Student, originally from Mexico City, studying Political Science and Economics. Has a good knowledge of modern technologies but has no experience with software engineering, website design or design in general. She was chosen because she fits the profile of our target population, which are young adults that like to travel, with an "average" knowledge of technologies and interest in social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook, proficient in English but speaks many languages as well, and also this website was completely new to her. We therefore considered her to be a good candidate that is representative of our user population.
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Reflection
Discuss what you learned over the course of the iterative design process. If you did it again, what would you do differently? Focus in this part not on the specific design decisions of your project (which you already discussed in the Design section), but instead on the meta-level decisions about your design process: your risk assessments, your decisions about what features to prototype and which prototype techniques to use, and how you evaluated the results of your observations.
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