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- A list of the available washers and dryers in the user's laundromat area
- How much time is remaining for a machine that the user has put clothes in and started
- A specific message should no washers/dryers be available at that particular time. This functionality also allows the user to be notified when a machine becomes available.
One important design decision that we incorporated into our document was the removal of the "finished" machine state. Previously, we had wanted to let the user know if there was some other user's clothes sitting in the washer/dryer that needed to be moved before that user could use the machine, but users found our implementation of this state confusing. After much deliberation, we decided that the cons outweighed the pros of keeping this state, so we removed it.
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Implementation
There are three main components to the implementation of our design:
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