UX Assignment 5

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Here is the example of a website that I think organizes a large database of content in an effective way.

http://www.sothebys.com

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This week: acting as User Experience designer for a hypothetical client: Great Buildings Collection.

http://www.greatbuildings.com .

Great Buildings Collection is an existing site that misses the mark in terms of user experience.

Here is the  flow diagram  for a revised site.

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UX ASSIGNMENT 3 design a physical object that allows a user to count

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The target audience is someone who wants to keep a numeric record of something and have a physical reminder of their progress to display for themselves and others on their desk or workspace. The object should allow the user to easily record single increments of change (either counting forward toward a target or backwards from it).

  • Rachel lives for vacation. She is going to Hawaii this year  and can’t wait. She is leaving in 100 days and wants to count down toward her vacation. Rachel thinks having a constant reminder of her progress toward vacation will help her get through the tedium of her job.

My solution:

A screen saver, which generates 100 bubbles at the beginning.

Touch one bubble each day till the last one disappear.

 

Interface:

The background is Hawaii island with  bubbles floating above.

 

How to count down:

use your finger tip to touch the bubble each day, thus see more of the Hawaii photo.

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  • John’s New Year’s resolution is to scale back on his coffee consumption. At the end of last semester he was drinking as many as 30 cups a week. Rather than going cold turkey, John wants to scale back. He is allowing himself 10 cups a week in 2013 and wants an easy way to keep track of his coffee consumption. He thinks displaying the weekly tally will help shame him into sticking to his resolution and force him to take it seriously.

My solution:

interface:A monster waiting to eat the sweets by longer the string.

How to count :

untie a knot when the user drinks one cup of coffee, so that the string will getting longer till the monster eats the sweets.

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Assignment Wk2: Compare User Experience

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by Bona Kim and Azure qian

We are comparing the experience of searching plumbers. First, we thought of comparing experience of two search engines such as Google and Bing.

However, we thought it might be much more interesting to compare recommendation/ search sites such as Yelp.

YELP

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PROS:
You can search through map / location based search
Various filtering options
Can easily see the average customer rating

CONS:
No search by serving locations
Plumbing category inside plumbing category
In terms of category, what it means home service and contractors was confusing

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PROS:
Simple and clear UX in terms of the top search bar.
The blue color makes the users to feel the site is reliable.
Claim in the front page saying The nation’s #1 plumbers directory.

CONS:
No customer rating or reviews
It’s clear to have two icons on the left that says “have plumbers contact you” and “Live help”
Might be more noise to have resources and related categories
Big advertisement of feature business is another noise.
Have sort button but no options to choose.
Have Plumbers Contact You is underlined and not obvious whether it’s clickable. (View categories area as well)
No need to put view phone button. They can just show the phone number in the front.
When you first get the search result, you don’t see the essencial information right away such as phone number, serving areas or address.