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QuickCop is an application that monitors product stocks and prices for you, so that you don't miss sales and drops.

UX Team Members

  • Kevin Xiong - Initial sketches, Heuristic Evaluation, Wireframes, Writeup, Competitive Analysis
  • Matthew Baker - Initial sketches, Heuristic evaluation, Wireframes, Review of cognitive walkthrough, Personas and Scenarios, Writeup
  • Neil McAuliffe - Initial sketches, analysis and evaluation, Wireframes, Personas and Scenarios, Review of cognitive walkthrough

User-Centered Design Artifacts

Phase I: Analyzing Users, Competitors, and Initial Designs

Executive Summary

  • Our competitive analysis revealed a need for a smoother streamlined process.

    • Customizable alerts: add price filters for alerts on sales and filters for specific stores
  • Our heuristic evaluation of our competitor revealed good application design and wording but had faults:

    • tracking ability is shallow and inefficient
    • hard to navigate back on application
  • Personas and scenarios show the different needs of our users.

    • have good customizable alerts
    • make setting up alerts efficient
    • be able to browse for products well on the application
  • Our initial sketch and designs show:

    • different ways to browse for items
    • filters for browsing and finding the item you need
    • information on sales and drops before even tracking the item
  • Alert to purchase should be quick

Full phase 1 report

Phase 2: Refining interaction and designing wireframes

Executive Summary

Further design work and user research so quickCop will be able to provide a great experience in browsing and tracking products.

  • Informal feedback mainly related to ease of use and better user control

    • more customizable notification settings like frequency and price range
    • automatic buying and help purchasing
  • Cognitive walkthroughs revealed a need to better show what the app does at the item page level and browsing pages

    • Obvious buy and alert buttons to show what the app does
    • Actual store and searched item pages
  • Wireframes give a better idea of the workflow and more details of the app

    • More details shown like price charts
    • Better formatting to know how it will look in the end

Full phase 2 report

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