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Elizabeth:
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Design 1
Most complex design, probably the best one I did. Design 2 |
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Hannah:
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Design 1Straightforward App focused on recommendation. Trying to make that process the fastest. App itself makes recommendations of what you would like based on a book you liked that you search when searching for recommendations. I.e. users can say "if you liked x, you'll probably like y" so anyone that likes x can search it and find the y. |
Storyboards and Analysis
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Paula:
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Design 1Efficient App. Only three options; Recommend, review, and find. Only buttons, except to write a title. Recommend me is the only social aspect. |
Storyboard designs and Analysis
Storyboard 1:
Suppose Amberlee wants to find a book. She opens up her application, and sees that she has a few recommendations, but she has read them all. She instead decides she wants to read a vampire romance with her friend Hamberleigh. She goes to "recommend a book" and looks up the genre for vampire romance, and sends the recommendation to her friend. When she checks her Reading List, she can see the books she is reading so that she doesn't forget to whom she has recommended the book. Over the next days, the girls get together and discuss the book.
This design is extremely learnable. It is based on a design similar to Netflix, such that most users will be very comfortable using it, and can quickly and easily get the hang of it. It quite efficient, but its efficiency is a bit affected by its safety. It highly interconnected, such that every title has its options displayed right there to minimize mistakes; however, this costs screen space, lowering efficiency.
Storyboard 2:
This was a super efficient storyboarddesign. In it, Amberlee presses find, picks the fantasy genre, and scrolls to find a book. The idea was that the only typing would be entering the name of a book (possibly writing a summary). That way, users who are in a hurry at a book store would only have to press buttons. In class, it was suggested that a dropdown menu or auto complete would have actually been more efficient.
Storyboard 3:
We chose the Mobile design as one of our three final designs.
Suppose Amberlee wants to borrow a book, but she doesn't know what to read. She opens her shelf to see if she has set a book aside to read. She hasn't, so she sees if one of her friends has. She clicks on "friends," and then finds a friend whose taste in books she likes, Jason. She sees what books he is reading, and sees he is reading Moby Dick. She selects the book and sees what the book is about, likes it, adds it to her shelf, and can now start reading a the book.
Efficiency: I sacrificed a bit of efficiency in order to make it more learnable. Despite this, It is very efficient overall, by alternating between three panels, such that no action requires more than three touches.
Learnability: The application makes use of colors and color coding to maximize learnability. It is very simple and has a UI similar to Facebook. Since most high school students are familiar with Facebook, they can easily figure out how to use the application.
Safety: The design is very safe, since it uses large, color-coded icons, such that mistakes are unlikely, and has an easily accessible navigation panel to give access to every section of the application, such that mistakes are easily recoverable. However, it could make more use of clearly distinguishable colors in order to make it more safe. Furthermore, it includes a "Back" button on every page to revert from any page to the previous.