Paper prototyping study

Those are the summarized results (read: encountered problems) of the paper prototyping study

Francisca

core problems

differentiating between photos of the user that hosts the site and photos of other users (e.g. group members or contacts) is difficult
the connection between the menu and the user is not clear nor evident
if the "photos" section has a submenu "tags", groups and contacts as well should have it
it is unclear how to send a photo to a group or a set – both should be possible already during upload
- communicating that this is actually done from the individual photo page
adding a user as a contact is a bit hidden
creator of a photo is not evident
- visual clues, such as avatar
menu/navigation structure for groups is not sufficient: e.g. how to see all tags of a group? where to put this sub-navigation?

still missing

open questions

To which degree the groups can be searched and fully browsed on a non-host site? To which degree content is duplicated?
How to communicate/display on whose site the visitor is (e.g. with an avatar in the header, different layout, title, …) and to which person the menu items refer?
users are used to centralied services such as Fotolog and Flickr. It is important to communicate that every person has her own site.
Tags and search pages that should work for photos from different sources (host, contact, group members) and the user should easily understand on which types of objects they apply

> for the study it would be better to create differing templates for different users