Team Members Involved: Michael Del Fante, Micheal Seng, Jonathan Wai
Last week, I messaged our client, Paul, on potentially contacting their client for some interviews, but they have decided to keep communications closed for the time being. Until Ombitron is ready to open that door for us, we will work on the only assumption we have: that the current fridge monitoring system is a manual, visual task, and any design would be an improvement.
Eric wasn't able to attend today's meeting, but we needed to parse through the feedback from the previous week and create a revised design that addressed the concerns mentioned in that presentation.
One of the biggest contentions we had was of Eric's submission of altering the folder display in the home screen, which sparked three design choices from the various team members:
- Keep all three status categories and count shown
- Show only Yellow/Red Status if even 1 is in either category, removes green
- Show only Status Categories that have 1+ fridges within, remove all categories with 0 fridges
We decided to experiment with each of these, and will present the altered scheme in our next Show and Tell!
Our new design has removed the "Secondary View," combining it with the Detail View. The sidebar in the Detail View will take advantage of side-mounted color bars to indicate status. For example, the following:
Fridge 6
Fridge 9
Fridge 3
Fridge 4
Fridge 10
Fridge 1
Fridge 2
Fridge 5
Fridge 7
Fridge 8
Fridges are ordered by Category first (Red = Critical, Yellow = Caution, Green = Operational), then by name/date (or perhaps another metric?). This utilizes the "List" variation that the class lauded in our presentation, in removal of the "tiles" secondary view that was panned. The original Folder System will stay, with alterations.
User Testing will occur more formally during and after our Presentation next week.
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