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Map: To find people traveling to New York, Sarah clicks the Search tab at the top of the page and is confronted by a world map and a list of sample groups as well as groups she created. To narrow down her search to people in New York, Sarah double clicks on New York until she is zoomed-in. Sarah then clicks and selects all people in the immediate area of New York, and drags them to a group. A new group has thus been created.
This feature is easily learnable and demonstrates direct manipulation. It is also clean and a good change-up from the other text-based components (Bulletin and Search).
Search: To see if there are other people in her New York group who are looking for roommates, Sarah clicks on the Search tab at the top of the page. By typing into the search textbox and applying the correct filters, Sarah can see a list of other people’s advertisements for New York roommates.
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Cons of Design #4: The design may be initially confusing to some users because of the lack of instructions and the dependency on a user's prior experience with Google Map-style apps. Also, while the results are displayed in a new fashion, users tend to have a hard time to read graphs and process large amounts of data at once. Learnability Because of this, learnability would be the largest issue with this type of design.