Express your kindness!

• Alisa Yamanaka• Danny Kitt• Haochen Wei• Jared Jones• Yuna Shim

Team Members

Mission Statement: “To help people express their kindness”

Problem: People are generally good, BUT:

Time, money, social awkwardness These prevent them from showing their kindness

Overall Problem

Make a service that: Provides intelligent

suggestions for random acts of kindness and volunteer events

This service is upLift App for Android mobile

phones

Solution

• Introduction• Problem and Solution• Tasks / Scenarios• Video Prototype• Design Evolution• UI Description• Future Enhancements• Summary

Overview

Kimberly: Little money and time to spare Random act of kindness for a stranger

Simple Task

Zachary Has an unexpected window of free time Looking for a volunteer event

Moderate Task

Nicole: President of school volunteer club Looking for more volunteers for an event

Complex Task

Video

• Introduction• Problem and Solution• Tasks / Scenarios• Video Prototype• Design Evolution• UI Description• Future Enhancements• Summary

Overview

Sketches

Paper prototype Navigational issues My Events confusing Wanted list of suggestions

Low-fidelity Prototype

To iPhone Back and home buttons Unified My Events Suggestions in list

Medium-Fidelity Prototype

Evaluation method

Results

Browse system

End-time

Delete system

Heuristic Evaluation

To Android! Functional changes

High-Fidelity Prototype

Userzoom Success? Failure?

Results Ambiguous wording My events style

Online Usability Study

To Android 4.0!

Improvements Wording My events Suggestion screen

Interactive Prototype v1

Study method

Results Wording Event info

Pilot Lab Usability Study

Runs on Android 4.0 devices

Changes from v1 Wording List info Category Pop-up

Interactive Prototype v2

Act Now Find Events Create Events My Events

UI Description

Simple Task - Perform a random act of kindness now

Act Now

Moderate Task - Browse events that others have organized

Find Events

Complex Task - Organize an event for other users to attend

Create Events

My Events - See events that you’ve joined or created

My Events

Sorting events Filter by location Locations with Google Maps User history Save data on server Corporate sponsorship

Future Enhancements

Solid prototype Many iterations Many evaluation techniques Experience with app development Improved our design skills

Summary

Express your kindness!