GR2 - Designs II

Scenario

Mr.Traveller finds out about the World Insider, so he visits www.insider-world.com. There he finds the intro page, where he can create his user profile or log in to his existing profile. (Task 1)

The user searches for friends, through several mechanisms, like importing from Facebook or using a database of users. After he finds the ones he wants, he adds them and they have to accept

his friend request. (Task 2)         

Now, Mr.Traveller either continues to his home page after Task 1 or he leaves and comes back at a later time and logs in. Then, he creates a “trip” page. This includes answering a few basic

questions posed by our website, uploading pictures and ranking “top things” to do for that trip. (Task 3)

After the user has added friends (Task 2), he can search for “trips,” browse through his friends’ “trip” pages or mouse over a world to get information about destinations he is interested in. (Task 4)

Design II 

This design is based on two ideas:

  • Guiding the user (similar to following wizards). 
  • Grouping data, adding tags and search filters. 

The purpose of this design is to help us learn how much our users feel they need guiding and to increase learnability.

Also, we want to know how to balance the advanced filtering,tag-based search techniques, etc. that we want to offer, with how easy we want to make it for users to add new trips and places.

Storyboard 2

Mr.Traveller (Spiderman) finds out about the World Insider, so he visits www.insider-world.com. There he finds the intro page, where he can create his user profile or log in to his existing profile. (Task 1) 

Mr. Traveller now creates a new profile and is guided step by step in the process.

Now, Mr.Traveller either continues to his home page after Task 1 or he leaves and comes back at a later time and logs in. 

Because the website wants to guide the user step by step, when the user logs in for the first time it he will be taken through a couple of steps to "teach" him how to add friends and encourage the user to add some of his personal information.

Step 1: Shows the user the different ways to build a network which include

  • Importing friends from:
    • Facebook
    • Gmail
  • Sending invitations by e-mail.

The user can always skip this step and add friends later.





Step 2: Mr. Traveller fills basic information about himself like where he lives.

This information will be used to populate his friends' map.



Step 3 includes some questions like:

  • Occupation
  • Age range
  • Gender

[For better search capabilities].

After he's done he gets access to a different set of options that he can pick from a menu.

For instance, now Mr. Traveller creates a “trip” page. This includes answering a few basic

questions posed by our website, uploading pictures and ranking “top things” to do for that trip. (Task 2)

Notice how this is a more interactive design that encourages users to categorize their information.



                                                      

After the user has added friends (Task 3), he can search for “trips,” browse through his friends’ “trip” pages or mouse over a world to get information about destinations he is interested in. (Task 4)



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