DC3 Week 3 28/05/2014 Post Presentation

I believe that our presentation was good at conveying what our plans for the city cycle where. While we did have some miner hiccups during the presentation, some quick improvisation was used to patch them up. We had taken the advice we had received from our previous rehearsal such suggestion as standing at the from of the room and increasing our presentation length and included it in our presentation.

Overall I am glad with the results of our presentation and further grateful that I got to work with such an excellent team. This has been one of the best team experiences I have had during my tertiary education.

DC3 Week 3 27/05/2014

For our third and final formal meeting we discussed and refined our roles based on our feedback we revived from our rehearsal presentation, for our final presentation that will occur tomorrow. We also revised on what should go into the Interactive poster.

 

Final Meeting minutes. 

DC3 Week 2 20/05/2014

In our second meeting the team decided to assign speaking roles for our rehearsal presentation. I was assigned to be a stakeholder that did not use the city cycle, it is my role to bring to attention the problems that stop people from using the city cycle.

We also discussed some solutions that could be used to fix the problems that the city cycle faces. One of the major ideas was to link link the use of the city cycle to Translink's go card, so that anyone with a go card could use the city cycle. 

 Mock up of a go card reader next to a city cycle. 

Meeting 2's minutes

DC3 Week 1 13/05/2014

For design challenge 3 i have been assigned to work with Jack Christie, Tom Hewitt, Michael Mckenzie and Junior Joyce. Our team has been assigned to make improvements to the Brisbane city cycle.

We agreed to meet once a week at 2pm around the cube in p block

In our first meeting we discussed the problems that faced the city cycle and decided to go out and acquire more information; Using interviews and searching for statistics about the city cycle. 

We also discussed what might be required of us for the final role-play presentation, and assigned Tom to create the interactive poster that is required.

I feel like this design challenge will be quite easy to complete as the team I have been assigned to seems to be on the ball so to speak. I can see the team is not going to have any trouble from it's individual members

Minutes of the first meeting.

DC2 Week 5 29/04/2014

based on the feedback form the two sets of interviews Cameron came up with high fidelity digital 'screens' of the app. Which i then applied to the interactive prototype that will be used in the final presentation.

 

The Redesigned main menu. the logo has been removed and the begin button replaced by the user swiping across the screen to begin.  

 

 the new sync menu covers the entire screen but still displays recent items synced to the users accounts.

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the calender  menu has been overhauled with new button textures being used and a colored background added. 

 

 the Day menu has been changed immensely the colored/textured boxes represent different events.

DC2 Week 4 24/04/2014

this week the team had to interview two more people

Interview 3 University alumni Male

Observation Questions.

What are you trying to do.

bring up more information on the selected event

What did you expect to happen when you did that

to show more information like time, title and notes.

Post Test Interview

Is the App simple enough to figure out?

Sure it seems simple enough.

What did you like?

The start screen looks like a proper mobile app

What would you like to see added?

The ability to change the text colour, I am colour blind so some of the text looks weird to me

What was not clear?

How to add and edit information about days

What needs Improvement?

Some slight adjustments in the look and feel of the app like make some boxes larger or smaller

Would you use this app? If not, why not?

Maybe if it was a free app.

Interview 4 Small Business owner female

Observation Questions.

What are you trying to do.

change the something in the defaults menu in settings.

How easy or hard was that to do

its a bit hard since the tick boxes are a bit small

Post Test Interview

Is the App simple enough to figure out?

Sure but It took a little bit to understand what the shared menu was for

What did you like?

I like how you can just just slide the screen to change between shared events and your personal events.

What would you like to see added?

To be able to email people form within the app

What was not clear?

As I said I found the shared men a bit confusing.

What needs Improvement?

Some of the icons used in the buttons look odd maybe you should redraw them

Would you use this app? If not, why not?

If it is free when it comes out I might be willing to give it a shot.

DC2 Week 3 17/04/2014 Easter Break

Over the Easter break the member of our team had to interview two people each using a set of questions

Here are my interview results to the interactive prototype

Interview 1: Former Senior Nurse Female

Observation Questions.

What are you trying to do.

Pick a day on the calender.

What did you expect to happen when you did that

To show information about that day.

How easy or hard was that to do

It was not too hard but the buttons on the calender are too close

Post Test Interview

Is the App simple enough to figure out?

It was not too hard to figure out how to use it.

What did you like?

I liked the calender grid

What would you like to see added?

Better looking buttons

What was not clear?

The setting button icon was too dark and hard to see what it was.

What needs Improvement?

More colours are needed it is too grey.

Would you use this app? If not, why not?

No I am too forgetful and I don’t think I would remember to update it often enough

Interview 2 QUT Alumni Female

Observation Questions.

They appeared to have no trouble in using the application

Post Test Interview

Is the App simple enough to figure out?

Yes it was

What did you like?

The Idea behind the application

What would you like to see added?

The notifications pop-up to be larger

What was not clear?

The Defaults settings menu

What needs Improvement?

The begin button is a bit out of place you should change it to something else, like slide to unlock like the Iphone.

Would you use this app? If not, why not?

Maybe later on if it was fleshed out some more