Work responsibilities in the group

We had pretty clear responsibilities within the group

Jess: Design
Arie: Visual research
Me: Linking and putting together

We met up at least once a week so that we could all give our ideas as we were working, but a lot of the design and linking was done individually at home, with communication through a facebook page.

Final Hand In and Critique

Hand in went great, we got mostly good feedback on our app. The only page that wasn't quite right was the list page, there was a problem with the way the list was arranged. Originally, we designed it in order of how far along the bar was, but because they are all on different time schedules, it looked confusing because the red one would still have heaps of time left because it was on a larger time scale.

We decided that arranging them according to the time left, listed on the right side of the bar, would be visually more clear. At a glance, you would still be able to see that milk is almost at the end point, but HB Pencil has jumped to the top because HB pencil has the least time left, and therefore is the most important right now. This is what the new layout would look like :

Finalising with the group.

3/04/14

I user tested the app on a family member this morning, because it was a whole new app, i thought it was necessary to user test again. The feedback was that the 'add new task' section needs to be clearer, and that was about it. Today we met up at uni to finalise the blog, thankfully all the changes were pretty minor, but it did take us most of the day. 



-We added a whole new settings section, that would have sliding bars to adjust the settings, but the bars are not functional because of restrictions from inDesign.  The 'notification range' bar adjusts how far away from a place you would have to be  to get a notification, this eliminates problems such as someone living in a rural area would need to set the scale higher, or someone with limited transport might put the scale lower.
The 'search words' bar allows you to change to amount of search words needed for the app to recognise an item and search its database.

-We changed the test entry box up the top to a more subtle, but still readable plus button. We did this because we wanted this page to be about the list itself, rather than having a big 'add new task at the top of the page.
We also added captions to the bars to give the scale a bit more readability, we also added small explanations of the scale at the bottom of the page.













-With the 'w' 'd' 'm' , they represent week, day and month. We thought about changing these to the whole word, but we liked the simplicity of it and we thought that once you had used the app, you would pretty quickly know what the letters stood for, especially with the addition above the bar that says 'select time frame'









Arie has a really good explanation of some of the other parts of our final app on his blog here -huttonarie.wordpress.com/2014/04/02/app-interface-stage-5-developing-new-design-recall/

Improved app.

2/4/14

This week Jess has really been working hard on the apps design, she just completed the whole design and sent it through to me so I can set up the links. I am so happy with how she designed it I think it looks really professional and clear.

We now have a landing page, a better way to keep track of your items and their deadlines , and more information available for the locations.

I am going to set up all the links for this tonight and we will meet up tomorrow to finish the app off.

User Testing

28/03/14

The user testing stage was really important for out group, we really benefited from having fresh eyes on our work. We changed quite a lot of things after the user testing, I don't thing that we really needed to make such huge changes, but the app was not going the way we we saw it going from the first week, so we decided to go back to the site mapping to clarify things further, while taking on board what people had said during testing.

The feedback that people gave was :

-People were getting confused with the setting of urgency, we needed to rethink how this feature was displayed. We wanted it to be included in the same motion as entering the new task to reduce the amount of clicks necessary, but i think we might just have to have it as a separate button to make it clearer for the user.

- Lines separating jobs were unclear, and the graphics changed mid way through the app. We knew this as we were kind of rushed to get it together before the presentation, and had some problems with exporting just before class. But the things pointed out by people were specifics, so its things that we will keep in mind when designing the final layout

-People couldn't be sure whether ‘m’ meant meters or minutes in the locations.

Image of feedback page :

We stayed after class to get our plan completely sorted for the week to come to get our new and improved version up to scratch.

Heres the new site map that we drew up and some notes :