🤔 Recommendations

For the next group who wants continue working on our project, we have some recommendations for you!

Functionality we did not add yet

• The ability for person nodes to become influencers once they have a lot of infolinks.
• Change the post content to a different feed with more up to date and appropriate articles. For now, all the articles are numbered with the post ID to differentiate between them, because it is very easy to have a post with the same title.
• Base the acceptanceDisctance on the canvas size. This will result in generating the same amount of groups on a big and small view port.

Ideas based on tests results

• Test more with the targeted users. We tested this application with three possible users and the test results were:
  • The toolbar is not visible enough on the screen. The users needed a long time before they could properly interact with the network through the toolbar. This could maybe be done by adding it to the onboarding or moving it to a different spot in the interface.
  • The users also took a long time to find the phone. This is because the mobile slides in the screen when the user clicks on a node. A possible solution would be to have it on the screen all the time with an empty state.
  • Users keep clicking on the posts, which does not do anything right now. It should either not be possible to focus them or do something if you click them.

Keep in mind that these solutions still need to be tested with users to see if they improve the situation.

Create clarity in the graph

• Prevent the nodes from overlapping
• See the most popular post
• If you hover over a person/post in the phone -> Highlight this item in the graph
• Drag nodes around the graph

Onboarding

• The onboarding should also explain all other functionalities like the toolbar and the phone next to what is possible in the canvas.
• The help button should also explain all these other functionalities, just like in the onboarding.

Example:

Possible problems

• Base the posts that you see in the phone on the distance of the post and the person. Placing links directly in the graph should be the superpower of the user, and the phone should be a tool to give the user insight on what is above the social network. Persons like a post based on the distance between the post and the person. But when you open the mobile, you can see all the posts. The mobile it there to give the user an idea of how a social network works. Therefore, the person that opens the mobile should not see all the posts because this is not like in the real world where the algorithm decides which post you see.