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- Make a new collection and add a picture or two to it
- Search the animals collection for a dog
- Share a collection with somebody else
- Add a descriptive summary to the dog item
- Change the name of the animals collection to 'pets'
Iteration 1
Photos
Main Screen 
Item Screen 
Animal Collection 
Collections Screen 
Menu Bar 
Collection Properties 
Sharing Manager Auto-complete 
Sharing Manager Table 
Observations
User Test #1 - Course 6, Male, owns Droid.
- Task 1 - Make a new collection and add a photo or two to it.
- He thinks for a few seconds, and clicks the new collection button
- He fills in collection name with his own name, then realizes the text box was supposed to be for the collections name.
- He adds "'s collection" to the name so that it makes sense.
- He adds a short description and clicks okay. (No pauses here).
- He clicks the add new button.
- He clicks the shutter button to take a picture.
- He clicks it again to take another picture. (I think he thought it would take him to a screen to take a picture)
- He clicks on tags: + to add a tag (he tags a picture of a smily face with Smily001)
- He wants to add another tag, so he clicks + again. he tags it with the date (we don't have it clear that this is automatic).
- He clicks on Ok to save the photo and is brought back to the collections screen.
- He adds another photo
- He thinks the drag out menu is the back button, so he clicks it... instead it opens up a menu. "Uh oh. That's not what I wanted!!" He clicks the button again to close the menu.
- We add a return button and he clicks it to go back to the main screen
- Task 2 - Search the animals collection for a dog.
- He clicks on the animals collection.
- He clicks the filter: + button , very intuitively.
- He types "dog" and then he clicks on dog to open up the dog photo page.
- Now, he opens up the slide-out menu.
- He clicks on share.......
- Task 3 - Share something with someone
- He clicks below new sharer button at first - (He couldn't tell that add new sharer was supposed to be a buttons)
- He then clicks on the actual button - "Ooooh google plus and facebook integration"
- He clicks on the text box and is slightly confused, but then writes "xxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com" and clicks on view, modify, and then okay.
- He wants to add another sharer, so he clicks on Add New Sharer, then on the facebook icon
- He starts typing xxx, and is pleasantly surprised by the autocomplete feature.
- He clicks on xxx xxx, view, and then Okay.
- Task 4 - Return to the home screen.** He then clicks on the bottom right okay to get brought back to the dog photo page. ** He clicks return to get back to the animals colelction.** He tries to click on animals. Nothing happens** He clicks on menu. He is surprised that it slides out.** "How do I go home? Oh. Return... return." He clicks on return.** He tries to click on "collections."** He clicks return again and is brought back to the main screen.** He tries to click on the logo. i think he's trolling us.
- "Is there a log out or something? That's probably what I'd look for." (We should specify that it's droid so that they know to click on the standard droid buttons).
- He clicks home.
- Observations -
- "It'd be cool if there was a home screen button instead of return."
- "The giant logo on top should be a home button."
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Maye the auto-complete searches all the things at once, and has little icons.
Iteration 2
Differences
Photos
Observations
User Test #1
We originally had the sharing manager just be a button that a user would push and morph into a menu to add a new sharing user. This proved to be weird and cumbersome, since users didn't really understand how this worked. We changed it to a more googledoc type of adding interface, with a distinct header, and a "done" button on the bottom. A table would populate with new sharers, and a persistently visible form would be there to add contacts, complete with textbox+autocomplete, and dropdown menus rather than checkboxes or radiobuttons. After the design iteration, nobody else had any real trouble with the sharing manager, other than to play around with what view/edit/own permission types meant.
We realized that not many people expected the swipe or press&hold user actions to do anything, or did not expect them. We gather that these actions are not commonly found in user vocabularies, though we will have them for people who do expect them. Conversely, all actions should be accessible through touch tapping exclusively, which we made sure to follow.
We turned the heading title into a shortcut to go back to the main screen, which is found sometimes in interfaces. The heading serves no other purpose currently, and it does save some users a few taps. We additionally took into account that people who were slightly lost would look at the menu to find what they could possibility do, so we're adding a few more items into the menu bar.
Observations
User Test #1
- This guy does not own a droid.
- Task #1 - Make a new collection and add a photo or two to it,** He clicks add new collection** He clicks on name... "I
- This guy does not own a droid.
- Task #1 - Make a new collection and add a photo or two to it,** He clicks add new collection He clicks on name... "I don't know what to collect" .. He types in Collections
- He clicks done
- "What does this do? Does this make it public?" He clicks public
- "oh no i wanted to make it private" Clicks private
- He clicks add new.
- He just sees what the piciture button does
- He takes a new picture of a chair
- He asks what the slidey thing does and then tries it out.
- He clicks done. (He didn't add any tags).
- We ask him to tag the chair.
- He clicks on the chair.
- He clicks tags: +. He tags furniture.
- Done!
- Task #2 - Share a collection with someone else.** He clicks on the chair photo. "oops"** He clicks on return.
- He clicks on menu -> Share.
- He clciks add
- He types in one letter. Another one.
- The email he is looking for is autocompleted, so he clicks on it.
- "What does this do?" He clicks on can view.
- Dropdown opens, he clicks on can view again. Done!
- He clicks on the main done. Done!!
- Task #3 - Search the animals collection for a dog!** Clicks return.** He clicks on animals.
- "I guess this is a dog..." Clicks on dog.
- "Did I find a dog?" Yes... kind of
- Clicks cancel.
- (We tell him we would like him to search for it, in addition to just finding it)
- Clicks on filter: +, filters by dog.
- Done!
- Task #4 - add a description to the dog item.** Clicks on dog** Clicks on menu -> add description
- Make a brief description, and clicks done.
- Task #5 - Change the name of the animals collection to pets** "hrm..." clicks Menu -> "Hrmmm..." clicks properties.** He clicks on name.
- He pretends to backspace, and deletes animals, and writes pets in it's place.
- Clicks Done, then Ok.
- Task #6 - go to home screen** Clicks return** Clicks return again... done!~
Comments:
"What'd you think?" - "It's okay - it seemed pretty straightforward"
"Is ther anything that confused you?" - "When searching, I was a little confused - it didn't say search anywhere on the screen.. it said filter..."
"I wasn't exactly sure how to input the contact for sharing." He likes the dropdown a lot though
"Would you rather it be called search?" - "Yeah, I think it would be more intuitive if it said search or something..." "I guess it's different if you're searching tags"
"Would you rather for the add new contact thing that it autocomplete for you from everything? Or would you rather have a dropdown menu telling you what kind of thing it is?" - "I would rather have an autocomplete. I think it makes more sense."
"Oh yeah, one thing that was strange was that there was no way to name items individually"
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