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Express your kindness!
• Introduction
• Problem and Solution• Online Usability Study Recap • Revised Interface Design• Prototype Overview• Prototype Demonstration• Tools Used• Summary
Overview
• Alisa Yamanaka
• Danny Kitt
• Haochen Wei
• Jared Jones
• Yuna Shim
Team Members
• People are generally good
• Difficult to express kindness towards others
• Provide service that makes intelligent suggestions for random acts of kindness
• Provide tools to help organize others
• Make it easy to find volunteer events that fit into a user’s schedule
• Tailored to each individual based on location, time available, budget and interests
Problem and Solution
• With high-fidelity prototype
• Easy, moderate and difficult tasks but the success rates were not much different
• General comments:
• Confusing interactions due to the wording
• Menu names are not clear
• Too many clicks required to complete tasks
Online Usability Study
• Suggested UI changes
• Change button labeling
• Improve date/time pickers
• Unify style/design
• Add button to My Events page to Search
• Improve requirements indicator
• Add volunteers specification
• Add event reminders
• Show comments of other users
Online Usability Study
upLift Before and After
Medium-fidelityprototype
High-fidelityprototype
Interactiveprototype #1
Revised Design
• Built on Android 4.0
• Made it more “Androidy”
• Applied “Halo Theme” and “Action Bar” based on the design guideline
• Fixed issues found by online usability study
Revised Design
• Changed the menu name “Act Later” to “Find Events”
• Added short descriptions of what each menu is to reduce the confusion
Revised Design
• More information about the suggestion
• To encourage more people to do the act
Pick a suggestion
“I’m finished”
Give a rating
Pick a suggestion
Read rating and feedback
“I’m finished”
Give a rating and feedback
Revised Design
• Used tabs for “MyEvents”
• Users can jump to “Find Events”, “Organize Others” screen when there’s no events signed up for or organizing
Prototype Overview
• The Action Bar
Prototype Overview
• The “Halo Theme”
Prototype Overview
Prototype Overview
• Act Now – Perform a random act of kindness for a stranger
Prototype Overview
• Find Events – Browse through events that others have organized
Prototype Overview
• Organize Others – Create an event for other upLift users to attend
Prototype Overview
• My Events – See events that the user will attend or have created
Tools
• Project repository: Google Code
• Android 4.0 SDK in Eclipse
• Mercurial Eclipse plugin for version control
upLift Before and After
Medium-fidelityprototype
High-fidelityprototype
Interactiveprototype #1
• iOS• Not very good
usability
• Old Android theme• Improved usability,
not perfect
• Android 4.0 guideline• Can be demonstrated
with actual device• Much better usability• More features
• Different learning curves, but made a lot of progress
• Most of the features were implemented
• Prototype is running locally only
• A little bit of hard code
• Will improve more after the pilot usability study
• Good position for next phase of project
Wrap-up