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• User 1 is a freshman living in Burton Conner. He does not have a meal plan, and shares groceries with his two roommates. He is also a member of a frat and sometimes eats there. He orders out food fairly often, probably at least once a week on average. He observes that he sometimes spends too much money on delivered food. 
  • He was a friend and had many of the characteristics of the user population.

FeedbackObservations

• View Meals page
  • Didn't realize that to select only 1 food group on the View Meals page's toggle bar, he had to deselect all the other options. Instead, he just clicked on the 1 food group that he wanted (vegetables), and was confused when he didn't see meals with only vegetables being shown
    • Solution: Make an "All Food Groups" toggle bar that is automatically selected. This bar should be visually separated from the rest of the food group bars. Clicking onto a food group bar will just select that food group, and deselect the “Add Food Groups” bar. 
    • Then, when you select a toggle, have it select only meals with items in that food group.
  • (Bug) Would like to edit meal items for the meal being clicked on, not a generic "Shredded cheese" entry.
• Groceries page
  • Noted it is not immediately clear how to add an item, since you have to add to the bottom of the list.
    • Solution: Ideally, add to the top of the list and push items down. A quick fix would be to add an “Add Item” button that scrolls the list down to the bottom.
• Analytics page
  • He was a little confused by the two lines for “total” and “breakfast” showing up together.
  • Remarks: This could be due to a backend problem, as the two lines on the graph were the same and overlapping.The data indicated that all meals have been breakfasts.

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• This user lives in a dorm and often cooks for herself. She was sought out because she represents a different section of our user population than either of the previous user testers. Feedback

Observations

• Task: View Vegetables from past week
  • Understood immediately that clicking on a label deselects it, and immediately deselected all but vegetables
• Adding a meal
  • Tried to click on the “lunch” box on the calendar
  • Then found the “Add Meal” button
  • Wiki Markup“\[She\] thought that \ [date\] would automatically go” (she thought the form would auto-complete the date)
  • She didn’t click “Add Item” before saving the meal
  • She thought it was weird that a blank entry showed up on the calendar, but it was explained away and she moved on
• Adding groceries
  • She looked for an “Add Grocery” button, similar to the “Add Meal” button from the previous page
  • She then went back to the “Meals” page and asked if she can add items from the “Add Meals” form
  • She then went back to the Groceries page and figured it out
• Viewing analytics
  • She quickly figured out that she needed to press the “Meals” toggle and select the date range in the calendar
• General comments
  • Wiki Markup“You should put ‘Add Item’ on the top or side \ [of the Groceries page\]”
  • You should also be able to click the square to add a mealunmigrated-wiki-markup
  • And it should auto-complete the meal type and date How representative? User 1 is a freshman living in Burton Conner. He does not have a meal plan, and shares groceries with his two roommates. He is also a member of a frat and sometimes eats there. He orders out food fairly often, probably at least once a week on average. He observes that he sometimes spends too much money on delivered food. How did I find him? He was a friend and had many of the characteristics of the user population we were looking for. Briefing/tasks? (This is filled out in outline above.) Usability problems identified?/Solutions \* View Meals Didn’t realize that to select only 1 food group on the View Meals page, he had to deselect all the other options. Instead, he just clicked on the 1 food group he wanted (vegetables), and was confused when he didn’t see meals with only vegetables being shown. Solution: Make an “All Food Groups” bar that is automatically selected. This bar should be visually separated from the rest of the food group bars. Clicking onto a food group bar will just select that food group, and deselect the “Add Food Groups” bar.  \[insert picture of what this solution would look like\]  (Bug, not UI problem) Would like to edit meal items for the meal being clicked on, not a generic “Shredded cheese” entry. \* Add Grocery Noted it is not immediately clear how to add an item, since you have to add to the bottom of the list. Solution: Ideally, add to the top of the list and push items down. A quick fix would be to add an “Add Item” button that scrolls the list down to the bottom. \* Analytics He was a little confused by the two lines for “total” and “breakfast” showing up together. Remarks: His confusing might not actually be due to a UI problem, but rather that these two lines on the graph were the same and overlapping.The data seemed to indicate that all meals have been breakfasts.Add Grocery