The story boards were created to visually communicate how our product would be used in the context of hiking. They augmented our user journey map by narrowing the focus on one fragment of the user journey and assisted our team with the lo- fi prototypes by visualizing how users can interact with the digital map and what features should be included in the prototype. We individually designed each of the storyboards with a user pain point and a pathway to address the needs of the user. These were mainly focused on getting the scenario and general approach correctly and had not delved too deep into the specific solution features. These solution ideas in our storyboard developed into more specifically constructed features in our low-fidelity prototype.
The story boards were created to visually communicate how our product would be used in the context of hiking. They augmented our user journey map by narrowing the focus on one fragment of the user journey and assisted our team with the lo- fi prototypes by visualizing how users can interact with the digital map and what features should be included in the prototype. We individually designed each of the storyboards with a user pain point and a pathway to address the needs of the user. These were mainly focused on getting the scenario and general approach correctly and had not delved too deep into the specific solution features. These solution ideas in our storyboard developed into more specifically constructed features in our low-fidelity prototype.
The story boards were created to visually communicate how our product would be used in the context of hiking. They augmented our user journey map by narrowing the focus on one fragment of the user journey and assisted our team with the lo- fi prototypes by visualizing how users can interact with the digital map and what features should be included in the prototype. We individually designed each of the storyboards with a user pain point and a pathway to address the needs of the user. These were mainly focused on getting the scenario and general approach correctly and had not delved too deep into the specific solution features. These solution ideas in our storyboard developed into more specifically constructed features in our low-fidelity prototype.
The story boards were created to visually communicate how our product would be used in the context of hiking. They augmented our user journey map by narrowing the focus on one fragment of the user journey and assisted our team with the lo- fi prototypes by visualizing how users can interact with the digital map and what features should be included in the prototype. We individually designed each of the storyboards with a user pain point and a pathway to address the needs of the user. These were mainly focused on getting the scenario and general approach correctly and had not delved too deep into the specific solution features. These solution ideas in our storyboard developed into more specifically constructed features in our low-fidelity prototype.
The story boards were created to visually communicate how our product would be used in the context of hiking. They augmented our user journey map by narrowing the focus on one fragment of the user journey and assisted our team with the lo- fi prototypes by visualizing how users can interact with the digital map and what features should be included in the prototype. We individually designed each of the storyboards with a user pain point and a pathway to address the needs of the user. These were mainly focused on getting the scenario and general approach correctly and had not delved too deep into the specific solution features. These solution ideas in our storyboard developed into more specifically constructed features in our low-fidelity prototype.
The story boards were created to visually communicate how our product would be used in the context of hiking. They augmented our user journey map by narrowing the focus on one fragment of the user journey and assisted our team with the lo- fi prototypes by visualizing how users can interact with the digital map and what features should be included in the prototype. We individually designed each of the storyboards with a user pain point and a pathway to address the needs of the user. These were mainly focused on getting the scenario and general approach correctly and had not delved too deep into the specific solution features. These solution ideas in our storyboard developed into more specifically constructed features in our low-fidelity prototype.
Evaluation Findings
In order to ensure that our designs were meeting the needs of our target users, we conducted usability tests on our lo-fi prototype with four different novice hikers. We observed the users go through our three main pathways to see if they were able to complete the task, what suggestions they had for improvement, and what they liked and disliked about the product.
After synthesizing our findings, we identified what features of our map needed to be redesigned and what features worked well.
Some of the feedback we received included completely changing one of our pathways for reporting damage and scanning plants. We were told that having two separate buttons in the taskbar taking the user to two separate camera screens was confusing. Users also mentioned wanting more control over the alerts feature instead of having alerts pop up randomly. Furthermore, we got valuable feedback on the design and concluded that some of our icons (such as the detect and the explore hikes icon) were not clear. These new perspectives allowed us to understand what aspects of our map weren't intuitive and allowed us to redesign our product to better serve our users.