Design
Implementation
Evaluation
Background
We aim to construct an online interface for authors to easily collaborate on and share original and fan fiction. The target users are amateur writers who want to work together, mostly for fun, but sometimes also to improve their writing. Collaboration is a major component of the site, with various authors having the ability to append sections to a single story. Each story has one or more administrators, who are responsible for adding and removing authors, and deleting any abusive comments. Depending on the style of stories the administrators want to write, authors can either have permission to 'write,' meaning add sections to the end of the story, or 'edit,' meaning alter the current text of the story.
Our website is directed at registered users, so please feel free to log in as any of the existing users. For all the users on the site, their passwords are the same as their usernames.
Tasks
- Find and read the story 'The Sound of Thunder'
- Comment on this story
- Create a new story
- Add the author 'cdoc'
- Add some text to your new story
Evaluation Results
User 1
- She did not realize she would have to log in to comment on a fic. This could be fixed by having text next to the comment saying 'You must log in to use this feature.'
- While creating a story, she found it irritating that the default text didn't disappear when the text boxes appeared. For example, she had to delete 'Insert Your Title Here' when changing the title of the fic.
- When experimenting with the search functionality, she thought it would be useful to have a 'No results found.' page.
- Overall, she said the design was very clean-looking, but that the title font was difficult to read.