Class Feedback

Today in class, we all had another sharing lesson, where we would go around and experiment with everyone's interfaces and give them feedback, in turn receiving some valuable feedback of our own. I decided to stay and get the feedback, since I had done most of the preparation of this prototyped interface, while Alfred went around to critique other apps. I have attached an image with our feedback below.

In the above image, is the notes that I took based on our feedback from the class, as well as Stu. The majority of the feedback was positive, with every single user saying that they found it easy to navigate, and it was simple where they had to go to reach the final outcome. A few sad that it was really logical, that they liked the colour scheme, and that it was looking really nice and refined. One of the key aspects seemed to be the ease of user interaction and navigation, as well as the design aesthetics and flow. Earlier in the lesson Stu had spoken about making sure the interface has a consistent feel in the colours, layout etc, and I felt like ours was very successful and effective in each of these. Stu's feedback, which is overall the most important feedback to acknowledge due to his experience with user interaction design, was very helpful. He did say that it was easy to navigate and use, and that he liked the consistency in the layout. There were a few suggestions, such as the "indoors" icon since it is so similar to the icon which is so often used for a "home" button. His other idea, since proximity of destinations is such a key factor within our interface idea, was to include this a lot earlier in the interaction stage. I have included a photo of his rough sketches of what to do below. Basically, he wanted it to go from the search screen, to allow location, to the 'casual, active, family' screen, then to the 'food, drink, entertainment', and then to another screen which shows their relative proximity to the user. It could be created in such a way that we can continue the use of our circle theme, and use these to show the distance each destination is in relation to the user. 

Our final hand-in presentation has been postponed to Week 7, the first week back from the holidays, since our next class would have fallen on Easter Friday, a public holiday. However, Alfred and I will make sure that we meet up regularly in order to keep discussing the development of our design, so we can continue to refine our interface until the final presentation. I will keep this blog updated with our progress.