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Trunk

Brought to you by Comic Sans

Emily • Erica • James • Isaac • Will

葉子琦 • 李育儒 • 王哲灿 • 葛旭明 • ウィル

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Introduction

Oh, hello!

This is Jen.

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She’s part of our user group,

older adults.

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Motivation

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Jen can’t communicate with her family because technology is hard for her.

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We now introduce

Trunk,

the solution to Jen’s problems.

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Photo Sharing

Sharing photos and memories keeps the whole family in the loop.

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Questions

You’ve got questions?

They’ve got answers.

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What’s the story behind our design?

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UI Design Requirements

Based on our research,

the winning combo includes...

large and colorful buttons,

descriptions of the buttons’ purposes,

and very simple interfaces.

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(Kind of like on this page)

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Paper Prototype

“No, I don’t want to sign up for your service.”

  • A North Hill resident

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Sign Up

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2,

1,

Easy as...

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Footsteps

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Contacts

List or tree?

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Which do they prefer?

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Tree Pros & Cons

On the one hand...

- learning curve

- big families

- formatting view

On the other hand...

- visual representations

- captures complex relationships

- family-oriented

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List Pros

Sorted alphabetically

Just scroll to view more

Easy to search

A

Z

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List Cons

Complicated relationships

Harder to add new contacts

Less information about relationships within the family is conveyed.

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Our final solution? (Drumroll, please…)

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Final Decision

Contacts List

Family Tree

and

Toggle here

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Family Tree Fine-Tuning

  • A/B Test of Adding
  • Designing for Older Adults

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Questions?

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About Trunk

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  • Intro (Jimbo)
    • Primary users: older adults
    • Problem (motivation): communication/information gathering
    • Album photo/story sharing “Amon” (among) family (different fb)
    • Questions simulate conversation
    • Older adults UI friendly
  • Sign up (Erica and Goon)
    • Presentation of ____ designed to gain users trust (interview)
    • Why does the UI look the way it does? (Simple and not all on one page) (shepherding old people)
    • Footsteps so you know where the end is and how far you are so you don’t feel like you’ll be there forever
  • Family/Contacts (I will)
    • Pros and Cons of family tree and traditional contacts list
    • Designing for older adults (different ways to add and delete)
    • User choice

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Talk about interview

Questions (optional)

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iSill

    • Pros and Cons of family tree and traditional contacts list
    • Designing for older adults (different ways to add and delete)
    • User choice

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  • Family Tree
    • Pros: big buttons for older adults, gives a nice visualization for those who are into that,
    • Cons: hard for big families, learning curve
    • Different ways to add peepz, present all three?
  • Contacts List
    • Pros:
    • Cons:
  • Using Both
    • Both are useful for different purposes
    • Users can still toggle between both interfaces

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Notes

Two people from Proctor and Gamble hired us to make our elderly product

One person gave the contract

The other person doesn’t have any idea just signs checks

Impress them with design and prowess

So much prowess

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THis is what we decided are important

We know what we’re talking about

We did the heuristic evaluation

We explored many different options

Just two insights

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Introduction

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Primary Users

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Older Adults (Jen)

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Problem

(Motivation)

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Communication, Information Gathering