Month: April 2016

Hi everyone!

Our app is called Stamped,an iPhone app for travelers that allows them to record all the places they have been to and create stories through their camera photo and video library to evoke wanderlust.

These are our first sketches.   Sketches

You can find our wireframes in here: Wireframe Pre

These are things and problems we learned from user tests.

1. For the view of adding locations, what if the user wants to enter a period of time?

2. minimum pictures? what if I just have one? What if I don’t have any? Can I upload them later?

3. The length of the video. What if I choose only 3 photos? How long the video will be? What if I have 100 photos? How long will that be?

4. How to make it simple and light?

5. After editing one small story video, the user got confusing that they don’t know where to tap next. “How can I know that the videos are edited?  I can not know if my editing is working. I also do not know I can skip editing.”

6. How to show the friends that have been to this city? How to show the number? What if there are 30 of my friends have been to London? Will there be a list?

7. How to teach users the difference between big story and small story?

Hi guys! I just found a nice puzzle game called Rusty Lake Hotel. If you enjoy puzzle games and detective stories like me, you definitely should try this one!

The game tells a weird story that five guests visits the Rusty Lake Hotel. The player is the waiter of the hotel. Every night, you need to solve puzzles to find tools and ways to kill one guest so that other guests can have meat to eat the next day. The style is beautiful too!

Pengpeng

https://marvelapp.com/iibgi5

User Insights 1:

wan’t intuitive to swipe up or down, just clicked on both camera view and map view: “The arrow is too small to tell”

got confused with upload icon, should be clear that it has something to do with location

“feels like snapchat”

“0-180” camera view made it clear what the concept was…which is panorama video not 360 video.

like the color scheme

User Insights 2:

tried to push first then then swiped on his own for camera and map views, navigated easily but didn’t get the sense that it was for panoramic video

also liked the color scheme

would like map to echo the color scheme with roads in seafoam green and everything else in off-black color

see video of interaction with camera

We’re excited to continue working on this concept!

LinkedIn’s $1.5 billion investment in Lynda’s new Learning Paths excited both of us. Besides music, podcasts are something we listen to as we’re walking around New York.

Our plan is to create an independent Lynda Learning Paths app that would be accessible to Lynda subscription members, and with very limited accessibility to non subscribers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is our quick prototype: https://marvelapp.com/dhi990

1. Reward System: Explore Experticity, Duolingo

Once the user completes a learning path, they are able to have this as a credential synced to LinkedIn. We are still considering how this “syncing” will happen, and how it would feel like.

2. Adding Learning Paths vs. Courses

We planned to have the ability to add an entire learning path or individual courses. Initially we identified these two decisions with two different icons. However, it was confusing for the user, so we will reconsider this.

3. Semantics (Bookmarks vs. Favorites)

4. Reconsider the User
– IPhone vs. Apple TV vs. Laptop vs. IPad.
– Who is our user that we want to focus on?
Some classmates brought a great point about how they sync their phone to their Apple TV to watch and follow Lynda coding tutorials with their laptops (to code with) and the instructions on the AppleTV (Two screens to increase learning efficiency and productivity).

– IPhone: Perhaps focus on Business Courses etc. (More convenient for people to walk to without needing extra utilities.)
– Yue and I will try a learning path to see what quizzes are needed to complete one.

Note: Automatic resizing is not simple. Focus on one interface on one medium.

5. Redundant Tab
Is it necessary to have a courses tab, when these can be stored in “Home”?

 

“While it remains to be seen how Lynda.com courses will be seen in the eyes of employers, and to what extent Lynda will boost LinkedIn’s recruiter business, Korcuska said the company is “optimistic.” “Learning Paths” could help boost the number of users taking individual learning courses by doing the work for users of figuring out which courses belong together and how to maximize their value. Korcuska compared the “Learning Paths” to a recipe for a meal, which gives users more reasons to select and purchase grocery ingredients, or Lynda courses, than if they went into a store without an end-game in mind.

“Learning Paths” are available to users who pay for a monthly subscription to Lynda.com. Every week, Lynda users complete more than 50,000 courses on the site and watch about 25 million minutes of video content. Lynda’s catalogue has more than 4,000 courses and growing. “Learning Paths” are available today in English globally (other Lynda courses are also available in Spanish, German, French and Japanese), and LinkedIn plans to continue adding new paths over time. The “Learning Paths” product is geared toward individual professionals, however Lynda is also expanding its enterprise education business, adding courses that help companies train entire workforces in new skills.”

To learn more: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kathleenchaykowski/2016/03/31/linkedin-launches-lynda-com-learning-paths-in-push-to-grow-education-business/#7e7ebdd13d05

Thanks!

We appreciate any other feedback.

slide：

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rxm2b99iSlZ9CRt4Jv4n50EKxWKx_XnPqxU5Eon_em0/edit?ts=570d4ad3

1. Reward System: Explore Experticity, Duolingo

Once the user completes a learning path, they are able to have this as a credential synced to LinkedIn. We are still considering how this “syncing” will happen, and how it would feel like.

2. Adding Learning Paths vs. Courses

We planned to have the ability to add an entire learning path or individual courses. Initially we identified these two decisions with two different icons. However, it was confusing for the user, so we will reconsider this.

3. Semantics (Bookmarks vs. Favorites)

4. Reconsider the User
– IPhone vs. Apple TV vs. Laptop vs. IPad.
– Who is our user that we want to focus on?
Some classmates brought a great point about how they sync their phone to their Apple TV to watch and follow Lynda coding tutorials with their laptops (to code with) and the instructions on the AppleTV (Two screens to increase learning efficiency and productivity).

– IPhone: Perhaps focus on Business Courses etc. (More convenient for people to walk to without needing extra utilities.)
– Yue and I will try a learning path to see what quizzes are needed to complete one.

Note: Automatic resizing is not simple. Focus on one interface on one medium.

5. Redundant Tab
Is it necessary to have a courses tab, when these can be stored in “Home”?

A video search, watch, and share app. Video watch form in three-dimensional space (Virtual Reality). It is designed for professional virtual reality video production companies. 

Here is the slides

User insights:

1. Add premium video content/account so people can subscribe to the app.
2. Not everyone can upload VR videos, upload features only open to professional companies such as Disney, Samsung and so on.
3. Search function doesn’t need to be separated, it can appear on the home view.
4. Activity view/function is not necessary

This  is our presentation 1 (app map & wireframes) for PAM.

Concept /  PAM is an event finding application that looks up upcoming conferences, talks, seminars (and other events) that are relevant to the user’s interests.