Experience with Paper Prototyping (Week 7)

Last weeks contact session was really exciting. Each of the teams were conducting paper prototyping sessions and I was lucky enough to be the one testing other groups, rather than conducting tests. It was great to see how the other teams were progressing and how their ideas were coming together. But it was also a good opportunity to see where our development was at in relation to the other groups.

I feel like we are on par at the moment with most groups. We are definitely behind team Findamals in terms of Backend development, but our team also does not have a software engineer so I guess that ok ^.^

Testing the Truth detective groups prototype made me realize just how difficult a game like this would be to build. The amount of things I saw Lilly just tapping and tapping and tapping on the piece of paper to try and get a clue was funny. Finding that balance between obvious clues and inconspicuous ones will be hard. Let alone having to deal with users inputs and spelling mistakes.

On the other end of the scale the Pinboards team had an actual working digital prototype. While it was very shallow it was still quite impressive and they had a survey to follow up with after the testing session. Which in hindsight is probably something that we should have organised.

While Felix and Rena got a lot of good feedback shown below, it would be a good idea for us to place a bit more emphasis on the testing session next time.


Migrated from Team blog.

Landing Page
1. Too much text to read for the construction.  -Could consider using flow chart or combination of pictures
2. The "Sign in" and "Login" button should be more distinguishable (separated?) and more informative to users what the difference is.


Home page
1. More instructions to tell the user what they should do (e.g. What's the difference of Hand and Easy;)
2. Emphasise the category tags, letting users choose among different topics
3. Whether to show the current works if users have already signed up and made some edit
4. More pages for different topics?

Editing page
1. More objective-orientated that users should know what to achieve (e.g. the total number of errors,  etc)
2. Layout of the page should be changed to follow the sequence of the work (e.g. errors 1st, editor 2nd, "Save" and "Publish" 3rd)
3. Change "Publish" to "Save & Publish" or a popped up windows with confirmation
4. Consistent navigation bar, allow users to navigate to different page.
5. Layout of the editor (customisable? switchable tags?)
6. Users are allowed to add name to their works
7. Any hint to users if they have solved all the errors
8. Users are only required to edit on page (no hyperlink include)
9. Inline CSS or separated stylesheet

My Restoring
1. The way of presenting: follow the format of "Gallery" or "Homepage"
2. Process recording presents as number counter instead of percentage bar.
3. Name of the works: customised name instead of numbers


Gallery
1. The work shown in Gallery would list its author
2. Develop presenting style as light box


Others
1. Do we need to make a profile setting page and a separated instruction page ("Help")
2. Logo position, Logo consistency.
3. To import the website (index) with only one stylesheet, by restricting the year range.