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Design 1: The Wizard Approach
Storyboard
Having decided to use IvyPlusResumes, Isamu points his browser to the website, and decides to sign up. Very simply, the signup interface asks him to provide his email and a password.
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Having done all of the previous steps in this wizard-like design, Isamu is ready to see the final outcome of his work and explore his finalized resume. He can, of course, go back and change things easily. Once the resume looks complete, Isamu can enable the option of sharing it with employers and creating an electronic form of it (such as PDF).
Analysis
Learnability The wizard design is very learnable, since it goes through every step of resume construction in a detailed fashion. The user only needs to enter the specified information at each step and review entered information at later steps. In fact, the process itself provides a great source of information of how the actual resume building process works. Therefore, the wizard design involves a lot of handholding and direction for the user, which is great for users with little on no background on resume building process.
Efficiency
While the wizard design presents a very learnable and efficient interface for the first-time users, it does however have some efficiency concerns for users who continue to use the product. Returning users might find the handholding process very inefficient for creating another new resume since by the time they have used the website they will have enough information of how resumes are built.
Safety
The wizard design interface is very safe, because it is the what-you-see-what-you-get process, and it is very rare that anything out of the ordinary will happen. Every step in the wizard is very detailed, and thus the user is fully aware of what each step does and how each step functions.
However, it might become the case where the user develops a habitual process of skipping through steps to increase efficiency. However, the wizard interface is going to prevent this from happening by disallowing users to skip steps without providing enough information for each step.
Design 2
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Design 3
Isamu has decided to use IvyPlusResumes to help him get ready for the career fair tomorrow. He opens his computer and goes to the IvyPlusResume's home page. He sees some text about how IvyPlusResumes will get him ready for networking. He sees a place to login, and a place to sign up for an account, so he decides to sign up.
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