READ ME:

Welcome to the @Home prototype. The first prototype (http://marvl.in/4i7ih4) is for the @Home user account. This prototype does not serve as a demonstration of complete app functionality, but rather a demonstration of the core functionality for completing two out of the three tasks we imagined @Home would accomplish, finding and requesting a service, and processing a payment. The second prototype we made (http://marvl.in/1hbbi9) demonstrates the third task, accepting a request from a customer as a service provider. Limitations that forced us to create only the core functionality of the app were the time constraint and working with Marvel Prototyping. The reason we have two prototypes is because you are not creating an account in the prototype, and in the full implementation the start screen would be different depending upon what type of account you have, a user account or a service provider account. While Marvel Prototyping offers an excellent solution to making medium-fi prototypes, it does not have the tools necessary to fully implement @Home, and we did not have the time or resources to do so with in the week. 

Use:
To use the first prototype, simply open up the link in a web browser and the phone will be displayed running the app. This works on mobile platforms as well. From the start page, simply click on the different options/icons/pages to navigate through the functionality of the app. If there is a field that is not responsive such as the “other” field for custom searches it is because that was not part of the core functionality vital to completing our three tasks. 

To use the service provider prototype, simply open that link and follow the same instructions above. The service provider prototype is much smaller because the core functionality we wanted to implement was just finding a customer and accepting the job. From the start page the John Doe’s represent customers with a blank space for the description of their problem and their star rating. Tapping on one of them represents “accepting” the job and you are then brought to the location page and later the satisfaction page just as in the first prototype.