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- Map displaying landmarks that the user can include & list of tours that include those landmarks (clicking would go to map)
- Map view with current location and a route to follow (like an iPhone)
- Drag your finger in between landmarks on a map to create new tours
The top left screen is the starting screen. All landmark markers start out grayed out, and selecting them makes them bright. Long pressing displays a picture and some info about that landmark. There are two buttons on the bottom of the screen. View tours takes you to a list of tours filtered to only include tours that contain the landmarks you selected (top right screen). Selecting a tour from this list brings you to a screen with more detail about the tour, including all of the stops, an estimated time for it to take depending on your method of transportation, etc. (not shown). On this other screen there will be a "Start Tour" button, which will take you to the bottom right screen. This screen is very similar to the iPhone directions app. It gives words on the top and a map with your path laid out for you. There are arrows to step back or forward in the directions. You can select a method of transportation as well. Back on the starting screen, the other button "Create new tour," takes you to the bottom left screen. This is a map view with a search widget to find locations you may want to add. You drag between landmarks to create your tour, or long press on the map to drop a pin and make a new landmark. On the bottom there is a button to create the tour and give it a name.
Analysis:
- Learnability
- A lot of text is required to explain actions
- Long presses are hard to discover, as is dragging between points
- The GPS portion will be familiar to users and easy to understand
- The selection of the list of tours will be straight forward and easy to understand.
- Efficiency
- Long presses and dragging are efficient and fast to use if you know they're there
- There are a lot of steps before you are actually following a tour, which is not efficient
- Long pressing to see info on every landmark might be time consuming
- Safety
- Easy to accidentally include or not include a landmark in your filter by accidentally tapping or double tapping
- Easy to accidentally add landmarks to the map
- Hard to misuse the GPS feature, since the only input is the arrows, which are easy to undo (they are a form of direct manipulation)
- Adding or removing a landmark from the filter is easily undone
- Dragging between landmarks, it might be easy to make a mistake, but again this is direct manipulation, so it is easily undone
Storyboard #2
- Map displaying landmarks that a user can include, auto-generate tour based on that
- Shows you the next step and then landmarks that are nearby/related/on the way
- Adding locations to a database, don’t specify tour route
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