Our Process
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Needfinding
Week 1: 9/25 - 10/2 With the goal of tackling what we believed to be a lack of engagement in today's educational framework, our team conducted needfinding on parents, high school/college students, and local educators to gain better insight into our target population's needs. What we discovered was a lack of sufficient awareness, time, and communication on the part of teachers and parents to provide for their students.
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POV's, HMW's, and Experience Prototypes
Week 2: 10/2 - 10/9 We conducted further needfinding interviews to get a better grasp of how to tackle this problem. From interviewing parents and teachers at the Nueva School and Bing Nursery School, we determined that our best mock-ups revolved around improving the ability to capture the educational development of students.
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Concept Video
Week 3: 10/9 - 10/16 Equipped with the necessary information we needed, our team continued the development process with the creation of our concept video. Our team decided to name our final app "Spark" as a way of showcasing our app's intentions to capture every bright moment in a student's educational development.
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Low-Fi Prototype
Week 4: 10/16 - 10/23 We created a low-fi prototype using Balsamiq and cardstock paper to simulate the user experience of our app. Testing garnered overall positive opinions! Our main issue moving forward is to emphasize clarity in the use of Spark.
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Med-Fi Prototype
Week 5: 10/23 - 10/29 Using Marvel and Sketch, we created a higher quality prototype and tested it on three teachers. The results of our testing were again overall positive, with minor clarity issues affecting the user experience of our testers.
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Heuristic Evaluation
Week 6-9: 10/29 - 11/27 Our team conducted a heuristic evaluation of our product's interface. We logged all realivant issues and incoorperated those changes into our Hi-Fi Prototype
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High Fidelity Prototype
Week 10: 12/4 We coded our hi-fi prototype in Swift using Xcode. With the short turnaround time, we resorted to using the wizard of oz technique to implement the archive. We plan to refine our product and build a fully functional application in the coming months.
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Slide / Poster / Final Report
December 4th, 2015
