Overview
Discussion by Item
Second
Interactive Prototype
Individual
Evaluations of BESS:
Bin | Hong
| Monica
| Rosa
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Overview
The
213 project and schedule need to fit into the overall SFnight
project and schedule. When
redesigning the interactive prototype for the second time, priorities
of which issues to address first took into consideration the overall
SFnight project needs as well as heuristic violation comments
and suggestions from the SIMS
Textbook Exchange Team and another evaluator*.
Issues
that were not addressed.
Issues such as a comprehensive help system and spell checking
of the entire site are held off for this prototype even though
they were ranked as high severity. Some issues requiring further
research and experimentation were held off due to time constraints.
For example, some websites used a welcome page as feedback and
a chance to provide additional membership/account information
to users instead of simply returned the customized page, as in
the SFnight homepage in the prototype. The
team wanted to see if this is a practice used by most info-centric
websites before
implementing. A new button design that will be standard throughout
the site is also being explored. The evaluators also found issues
in areas that are mostly not within the customization focus of
the 213 project, such as in the search page, the events and venue
pages. The issues may or may not be addressed depending on the
priorities of the overall site.
Issues
that were addressed
The term "E-mail list" is standarized across the site
to establish the temporary list that can be sent to friends. The
team decided on the site standard of using relevant icons with
each "item" instead of a check box that can be used
for various purposes by depending on which button is selected.
This interaction style is promient in the MySFnight page, the
E-mail list, and the search results. Other significant design
changes were made in the MySFnight and E-mail list pages. Changes
were made in the Sign Up page. A new update preference page is
created. Many minor changes such as the use of radio buttons instead
of check boxes were implmented.
