Iterations of Prototyping (Teammeetings)

by Fredrik and Suhanyaa

First Iteration

In the first iteration of the prototyping first sketches of the design idea were made (Check out the first iteration here!). A heuristic evaluation of expert users was then performed based on the sketches. This was our first very low-fi-prototype. It was very easy and cheap to make, and easy to modify and therefore very flexible, which made it easy for us, to react on feedback and suggestions from fellow students during the heuristic evaluation.

Second Iteration 

After the meeting on the 28th of october, each teammember gathered design ideas and created individual sketches for our paper prototype (see individual design ideas and sketches here). We discussed the ideas from the paper-prototype sketches coupled with the feedback from the heuristic evaluation from exercise 4 and made second iteration of our prototype, an interactive low-fidelity prototype  prototype using Flinto. This iteration was fairly simple but was intended to be used for the think-aloud evaluation. (See Think-aloud data)

Flinto prototype (Check out our 1st Iteration Prototype here)

Third Iteration

On november 2nd of november we met up to discuss the think-aloud evaluation feedback and to make another iteration of the prototype, this time a more high-fidelity prototype. Some of the key points from the think-aloud feedback were the following:

• Some icons were confusing
• Unclear whether the map is interactive
• The colours of the routes on the map were confusing

We commenced to work on the second iteration thinking about these things and the result was something like this:

Check out the 2nd prototype here

We took in consideration the fact that some of our think-aloud evaluation participants wasn't initially sure whether the map was interactive or not so we made it span the whole screen to accentuate that fact. We also tried to make the icons clearer but unfortunately we didn't have the time to properly show what happens when you click all of them in this prototype. Lastly we changed the colours of the routes showing on the map, simply highlighting the one selected instead of having a colour-coding system.

Fourth Iteration

On the 8th and 9th of november our group met up to discuss the feedback we got from exercise number 5 were we presented the 2nd iteration. Here are the key-points from that feedback:

• Make the text window smaller/slimmer
• Refine tourist attraction information
• The theme of the design has a pre-dated look
• As it is meant for tourists, add more tourist relevant information

We took these things into consideration when we started to make the final iteration of the prototype.