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 -
Project Recap
Week 2: 1/12/2016 After deciding to continue the proejct in CS 194H, our team gave a presentation recapping the work done up to this point.
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Lab Usability Study
January 26th, 2016 After redesigning the entire capture moment interaction, our team conducted a lab usability study with five kindergarden teachers in order to gather data to optimize the user friendliness of our application. Additionally, our team construced a rough business model for our product.
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Business Model
February 1st, 2016 Our team constructed a preliminary business model for our prospective app. The process involved creating a map on Canvanizer detailing our business's main features as well as writing up a short description of how we decided on our projected business model.
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High Fidelity Prototype #2
February 4, 2016 After conductding the lab usability study, we essentailly started coding our application in swfit from scratch, as this allowed us to maintain cleaner code as well as it was easier to revamp each of our task flows this way.
To run this application on your device, download the ipa file below, drag it into itunes, then sync your device with itunes.
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Field Test
February 15th, 2016 We conducted a field test of our application this week to test the usability of our application in as real of a setting as possible.
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High Fidelity Prototype #3
February 25th, 2016 We created our third iteration of our hi-fi prototype for Spark. At this milestone, we implemented new functionality in the form of a cleaner capture flow, video recording, caching, sharing with parents, and further login functionality. We also refined the capture flow and conducted a full redesign of our app's UI design.
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Concept Video
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Final Prototype | Final Report | Final Poster
March 10th, 2016 We finalized our prototype and presented Spark at the CS194H Industry Fair Poster Session! To wrap up our work, we drafted a final report detailing the progress we accomplished this quarter. Our final prototype, report, and poster design are linked below.
