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Week 8 Update: May 19 & 21, 2015

Tuesday - May 19, 2015: 3x3 Update


Three things we have done in the past week:
  1. - We first began by giving an update to the class on what we'll be doing for the rest of the quarter.(what we discussed in the previous Thursday meeting)
  2. - App Development
  3. - Home Feature
  4. - Improved Detailed View
  5. - WiFi Filter
  6. - Storyboards
  7. - Make storyboard for dropping messages
  8. - Website update
  9. - added more meaningful bios to About Us section
  10. - added the first 3 weeks to the weekly updates section (so we'll have 10 weekly updates by the end of the quarter)
  11. - moved the Project Proposal page to under the Docs pages
  12. - updated specific icons

App Screenshots:


Drop Messages Storyboard Presented:
Three things we will do this week:
  1. - App Development
  2. - Drop Message Feature
  3. - Plot points between points
  4. - Finalize Storyboards
  5. - Update Website with this week's update

Three things where we could advice or are blocked:
  1. - iOS App feedback
  2. - Drop Message Storyboard
  3. - Need Feedback on Website

Feedback from Tuesday's Class:
  1. - "currenct" misspelling
  2. - capitalization of Basepoint
  3. - could put the Drop Messages button down with the buttons on the map, or could put the Search button there too
  4. - bottom MyJourney button - move the Drop Messages down there (maybe?)
  5. - change icon for Drop Messages
  6. - change name for "Drop Messages"
  7. - think about how travelers could get spammed with all of these drop messages
  8. - zooming in to control it
  9. - up/down vote it = where if you get enough downvotes the message gets deleted
  10. - move MyJourney to the top left and then do a discovery feature where that icon is at
  11. - login can hold off - that's fine


Thursday - May 21, 2015: Meeting Update

Storyboards Presented:
Feedback:
  • Biggest high level reaction → framing the second scenario
  • Have the app keep track in the background where you are at in the journey
  • Storyboards
  • Scenario 2 has a slightly different starting point
  • Need to fix the numberings on the screens
  • Online Planning
  • "plot" is a weird word
  • range, order, path, route (but maybe too much like go where you're already navigating), MyJourney (and then change MyJourney to be MyBackpack or something along those lines)
  • last 5 screens need to be reordered
  • something's missing → missing one screen
  • tap plot
  • tap each icon individually to order it
  • expand this interaction
  • maybe need to replicate those flags on items that you were interested in but didn't addto your trip
  • Offline Navigation
  • misleading thinking that offline you can only do navigation
  • want to do more of a comparison between online and offline
  • but are they that different? (can do everything online as you can do offline)
  • but there's also a difference between planning and doing
  • surface the WiFi here
  • Jane knows there's a tour guide but didn't cache it previously → therefore she uses the WiFi filter to download it
  • scene in middle where they find a museum midway through their journey
  • Drop Messages
  • "Senrendipity" typo
  • need to add the additional icons (restaurant..etc) to the map (to show it's the same map and not a different one
  • need to add the messages filter
  • seeing whats there and then leaving your own messages
  • Size wise for scenarios → keep it to a 2 minute video *would be able to do this with current set of storyboards but would need to keep it crisp

  • Testing
  • How many people do we need? → 3-5 smaller number should be alright because we'll reach a saturation point, no more than 5, should have some traveling abroad experience
  • Do we need a scale with which to grade the usability testing? → mostly qualitative, set up like a paper prototype session, groups of friends or mini focus group (get them thinking about doing a trip)
  • more of a heuristic evaluation → try to get the whole range of reactions from online-offline, little more of the implications