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Throughout our design, our team tried to maintain as much simplicity as possible. Following this design decision, the implementation of our laundry app consists of an all-in-one home screen (see screenshot 1). This screen presents the following information to he user:
- 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 (see screenshot 2).
- 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.
- The ability to leave notes on machines, read notes from previous users on machines, and indicate that you are about to use a machine.
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In our heuristic evaluations, multiple evaluators were confused with what the checkboxes associated with each machine actually controlled. To address this, we changed the text label next to the checkbox from "Notify me when this machine has finished" to "I've loaded this machine". We feel that this message makes the checkboxes' functionality much more apparent (see screenshot 3 for example of this).
Screenshot 1: The LaundryQuandary homescreen.
Screenshot 2: Machines running with progressbar.
Screenshot 3: Available machines options.
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