UXDI Sydney project one, main goal: understanding user, rapid prototyping

1. Movie Note
GA Project-1
James Feng

2. User Story:
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Cheryl, She likes movie. She usually hires movies in store,
instead of watching movies in cinema. She thinks it is more
time-saving and flexible to hire movies. She doesn’t stream
movies online, due to the slowness of internet.
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She tends to remember the movie, which she comes across on
the street and hire it later. Also, she takes a movie suggestion
from friends and hire the movie.
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If she don’t like the movie she noticed on the street, she will
take some time to walk through the store and hire one anyway.
Problems:
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Cheryl easily forgets the movie she wants to hire.
. It’s hard for Cheryl to write movie name down when she is walking on the street
. It takes a while for her to look for movie she is interested

3. Solutions
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A easy way to record movie name on the way.
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A information source to check out movie detail prior to hiring.
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Iterative Process:
Problems
Found
Create
User Flow
User
Validation
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Sketch

4. 1st Iteration:
User Flow:
Cheryl login
Cheryl adds items to watch list, mark is as watched , delete it and
check the movie detail page via watch list
Cheryl browses new release list and add movie to watch list

5. Solution Sketch:
Problems with the sketch:
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Cheryl needs a fast way to take a note of a movie poster on the street.
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In this sketch, Typing in words is the only way to add item to watch list, which is not fast, and not
convenient while Cheryl is walking.
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• Cheryl doesn’t really need to check the movie detail once she already
added the movie to watch list.
Improvement:
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Add a camera function to take a image note on the way

6. 2nd Iteration:
User Flow:
Cheryl adds item to watch list, mark it as watched and delete.
Cheryl login
Cheryl browses new release list and add movie to watch list

7. Solution Sketch 1:
Problems with sketch:
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Cheryl takes movie recommendation from friends. In that case, Cheryl
cannot take picture of the movie easily.
Login page is not necessary in Cheryl’s case. It’s a personal app and there
is no data & account binding is required.

8. Solution Sketch 2:
Feedback:
• Cheryl can solve the main problem she is facing
• The item adding process in watch list still have room to
improve.

9. Solution Sketch 3:
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Based on previous version, I altered the item adding process.
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press the add button at top-right of watch list page to access camera to take image note.
press and hold for 2-3 seconds to access the words note only, in order to add movie in
words formate only.

10. Conclusion:
• Now, Cheryl can take an image note of the movie poster, when she is walking
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on the street.
She also can take words note directly where taking picture is not possible.
She can take a look of movie news before she walked into movie store, in case
she don’t think the movie she took note of is appealing.