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On the Analytics page, the biggest problem was understanding how to control the graph. In particular, we realized that our labels “Food Groups” and “Meals” didn’t convey many affordances for their actual purpose. Easier to understand labels would help here.
The transcripts from our user tests can be found here
Reflection
We should have done more paper prototypes and earlier iterations before moving into the computer prototypes. We kept coming up with new ideas, and we never had opportunity to test these ideas on actual users. Because of this, our design suffered unnecessary complexity, both in the implementation and in the front-end.
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