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Home Screen

Storyboard

Visibility

Learnability

Efficiency

Safety


                   Home screen                      The list of social contacts (friends)
 
The list of commercial contacts (deals)

When Joe logs into the
LocaShare app, he sees
the home screen, which
only has two buttons.
By clicking on the "My
friends" button, he sees
the list of his friends
(social contacts),
and by clicking on the
"My deals" button he 
sees the list of his
deals
(commercial
contacts).
Also, clicking on the
"LocaShare" button on
the upper left corner 
leads Joe to the home
screen.

Pros:
1. The friends and
deals buttons are huge, 
and this makes them
salient to users.
2. The icons for friends/
deals are presented by
pictures. Joe can easily
recognize his friends/deals.

Cons:
1. Search bar might be too
small to be noticed.(We
should test this in paper 
prototyping.)
 



Pros:
1. The user interface is
    is externally consistent
    consistent with
    other social
    applications.
2. The user interface is
    is internally consistent since
    since the way ways to list friends and
    friends and deals is
    similar.
  deals are similar.
3. The UI conveys itself to the
Joe by using the texts Immediate
*feedback *is also provided
when Joe clicks on the buttons.

Pros:
1. By providing the
search bar, Joe can 
find his friends easily,
and this prevents Joe
from scrolling down
on the long list in order
to find a specific
person or deal.

If Joe views the wrong
person, wants to see a deal
but mistakenly clicks on
the "My friends" button.
He can easily resolve
this problem by going
back to the main screen.

  

Task 1: Add Social Contacts

Storyboard

Visibility

Learnability

Efficiency

Safety

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               Home screen                            Find for friends by typing in the             Permission setting page of Joe
                                                                                 search bar          

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   Permission setting page of Joe
                                        for  for Bob

To add a new social contact,
Joe starts from his home
screen and clicks on "My
friends" button. He finds Bob
by typing his name in the
search bar (which is located
at the upper right corner.)
 Joe then sets the permissions
for Bob. For example, in this
scenario,
1. Adjust the time by manipulating
    the clock-like interface.
2. Choose the places that are
     available for Bob by clicking 
     on the map. 
  (a)  Click on a new place to 
        create a new one. At the 
        same time, you can edit
        the place's radius and name,
        such as STATA or Boston.
   (b) Clicking on an existing 
         place can either delete it
         or edit it.
3. Hide/show aggregated information
    by clicking on the chart and the 
    Hide/show button.

 

Pros:
1. The map provides
direct manipulation
which allows user to 
see

Pros:
1.
Cons:
1. It might be cumbersome
for users to set the 
permissions of each
social contact one by one.
Aggregation should be
used. (ex. group permission
settings.) Efficiency problem
can also be mitigated by
providing default
permission settings. 

 

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