Derek Reinelt

Team Manager

Angela Lam

Design

Jake Sanders

Development

Padma Vaithyam

User Testing

Problem

Event goers do not have a way to communicate with one another in real time.

Solution

CrowdSync aims to connect event goers through crowdsourcing.

• Representative Tasks

• UI Description

• Design Evolution

• Future Enhancements

Overview

Task: Simple

Find the location of something at an event

Task: Medium

Gauge the popularity of an event attraction and what people are saying about it

Task: Complex

Make your own comment about an event attraction

UI Description

prototype

Evolution: User Research

• What's the problem?

• Contextual inquiries, interviews

• Resultso Information is scattered

Evolution: What we learned

question-based UI

Evolution: What we learned

map-based UI

Evolution: Task Analysis

• Answered task analysis questionso who?o what?o how?

• Merged ideas

Evolution: What we learned

Evolution: Usability Testing

Evolution: Prototype

• Led to a simple, flat and interconnected UI structure

• Identified UI issues with o Map interface o Navigation

Future Enhancements

• Add booths and food UI and content

• Add ability to sort by ongoing artists and reminders

• Profile page

Summary

• Crowd Sync aims to connect event goers through crowdsourcing.

• A simple question and map based UI.

• In future, focus is towards added functionality with personalization through profiling.

Connecting people and events like never before.