Week 22 Zain
Zain Hasan: Presentation 4: Blog 2
There are a number of ways to go about making the next prototype. Making the same mistakes as before and confusing the user is not one of them. Some problems that were previously detected, fixed, and then incorporated again had to be reviewed and removed. Luckily, the prototype has far fewer problems as it gets perfected.
Group Work:
The tasks in reviewing test results and creating the presentation were allocated to each member of the group. It was now required to give our all to evaluating our newest prototype for the last time so that we could include the results in our presentation. Each member of the group then set out to contribute to the whole.
Individual contribution:
My contribution in this presentation was reviewing all that had gone before and what improvements we have made since the start of this prototype. It was my job to create the summary of all that we had done. I took to the task with a slight anticipation as I was aware of the enormous amount of work it had taken to get to this point in time. I reviewed everything we had done, all the elements we had used, the theories we had implemented and the innovations we had incorporated and reiterated them in the summary section. In my initial run-through I went seriously overtime for something that should have simply taken 5 minutes. I did my best to outline our tremendous efforts in completing this long design process within a reasonable amount of time. Aside from this, I contributed in suggesting we make the Red Board system quicker to use to allow for fingerprint registration for existing user names.
Lessons learned:
After all the work we have done on this project, it is clear where the focus has always been, on the user. The user wants, the user gets, the user tests, the user suggests and after all is said and done, the user vets. After seeing the final product, the user feels upset. This is the cycle we are been following for what seems like ages. It seems all we have managed to accomplish is making the user slightly less upset each time. In all seriousness though, the experience gained during this project ensures future success with other designs. I should say though, the level of development we have put into the red board begs full production. Maybe this HomeMess system could be a fixture in people’s homes soon.
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