Briefing

Collectors and hoarders own lots of things in some single category, and often need an application that helps organize and keep track of the things they own. Organizing a large collection can be tricky and nontrivial, especially if said collection was not well organized from the start. There is currently no quick, simple way to organize and keep track of one's collection in a mobile, intuitive way that is easily generalized to all categories and objects. Most collection organizers rely on recall, as opposed to recognition, causing many collectors to accidentally purchase duplicates of an item. The problem is compounded when a group instead of an individual is managing a collection, or an inventory, where communicating via objects could be through descriptions or through visual aids. This application aims to allow users and groups to view and organize entire collections on the go.

Tasks

• Make a new collection and add a picture or two to it
• Search the animals collection for a dog
• Share a collection with somebody else
• Add a descriptive summary to the dog item
• Change the name of the animals collection to 'pets'

Iteration 1

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Observations

User Test #1

• Task 1 - Make a new collection and add a photo or two to it.   
  • He thinks for a few seconds, and clicks the new collection button
  • He fills in collection name with his own name, then realizes the text box was supposed to be for the collections name. 
  • He adds "'s collection" to the name so that it makes sense. 
  • He adds a short description and clicks okay. (No pauses here).
  • He clicks the add new button.
  • He clicks the shutter button to take a picture.
  • He clicks it again to take another picture. (I think he thought it would take him to a screen to take a picture)
  • He clicks on tags: + to add a tag (he tags a picture of a smily face with Smily001)
  • He wants to add another tag, so he clicks + again. he tags it with the date (we don't have it clear that this is automatic).
  • He clicks on Ok to save the photo and is brought back to the collections screen.
  • He adds another photo
  • He thinks the drag out menu is the back button, so he clicks it... instead it opens up a menu. "Uh oh. That's not what I wanted!!" He clicks the button again to close the menu.
  • We add a return button and he clicks it to go back to the main screen
• Task 2 - Search the animals collection for a dog.
  • He clicks on the animals collection.
  • He clicks the filter: + button , very intuitively.
  • He types "dog" and then he clicks on dog to open up the dog photo page.
  • Now, he opens up the slide-out menu.
  • He clicks on share.......
• Task 3 - Share something with someone
  • He clicks below new sharer button at first - (He couldn't tell that add new sharer was supposed to be a buttons)
  • He then clicks on the actual button - "Ooooh google plus and facebook integration"
  • He clicks on the text box and is slightly confused, but then writes "xxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com" and clicks on view, modify, and then okay.
  • He wants to add another sharer, so he clicks on Add New Sharer, then on the facebook icon
  • He starts typing xxx, and is pleasantly surprised by the autocomplete feature. 
  • He clicks on xxx xxx, view, and then Okay.
  • He then clocks on the bottom right okay to get brought back to the dog photo page. he clicks return to get back to the animals colelction.
  • he tries to click on animals. nothing happens
  • he clicks on menu. he is surprised that it slides out. but he sees.
  • "How do i go home"
  • "Oh. return... returun" and he clicks on return.
  • he tries to click on "collections"
  • he clicks return again and is brought back to the main screen
  • he tries to click on the logo. i think he's trolling us.
  • "Is there a log out or something? That's probably what i'd look for."
  • should specify it's droid so there are the standard droid buttons.
  • he clicks home.
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Iteration 2

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