Entry: 11/10/14

Digital prototyping:

In this week’s contact session we had to present our digital prototype and do user testing or our website. We had almost all the major functions of the website up and running.

I have developed a simple user interface for the PHP database as well. It is a simple php page that gives latitude and longitude information of the suburb and can be used to plot the different markers and can be used in processing the hot spots in the Homestigation website.

We will ask the user if he want to see the hotspots (markers on the maps) or prefer maps (heat maps).

User Feedback:

Most of the users choose heat maps since it is more presentable and shows which suburb of Brisbane the user selected using colours.

Also I've also experienced that some users did not notice the suburb selection box and the search bar inside the select box, since the colours were too light. We had to fix it and change the colours, as I also changed the height of the select box as shown below:

We received some useful feedback from the lecturer and tutors that will help improve the functionality of the application. One feedbacks was to move the search box to a different place, so it it obvious for users.