N@TM Reflection

[BobTheFarmer]

2-Tri project focus planning

Test data

We allowed users to add some data to the database which we can keep as demo data. In addition, by letting users test our project, we gained some insight into how they would be inclined to use it in relation to data. For example, in the issues section, there was some confusion of what the title vs description should be.

Feedback

I think getting a variety of perspectives at N@TM was our biggest success. Many people tried out our project, and I tried to keep track of everything of note:

• Ease of use: A lot of people were confused where to click or what to do, and we had to guide almost everyone though it. One of the biggest issues here was the many buttons which caused confusion. In the future, we should combine some features, and combine less essential features like issues and flashcards under dropdown menus to cut back on the many buttons. We should also add a page to explain the website.
• Needing to refresh the page to get new data for some features: Also on the issues and flashcards pages, upon making a post request the page does not update. This caused confusion as to where user's submissions went.
• Visuals: We also asked about feedback and one interesting thing we heard was the lack of color or a distinct uniform styling. To fix this we can add a single SASS template to affect all pages.

Event blogging

Grows/glows

I think our biggest glow was having a complete demo to show everyone for N@TM. Doing reviews a couple of days before N@TM meant we had some time to look through our project and change things to have something that was pretty polished to show.

Another glow we had was our presenting style. We would try to let users explore the project and explain things to them as they got to keep it interactive and engaging.

The biggest thing we need to work on was our login system. Not having that ready meant many features could not be fully connected and made the website unnecessarily harder to use as users had to type their username for every request.

Pictures

N@TM blogging

I looked at a variety of projects from all CSSE, CSP, and CSA. My favorite project was probably the Mario project that CSSE worked on. I have never made a game and it was cool to see what they made. It is also cool that they were able to put it in a browser.

Outside of CSA my favorite projects were probably from the pottery class. I liked the vases they made because they all looked like they took a lot of effort to make and were each really an effort by the students.

[jm1021]

I like the reflective and corrective nature of your comments "had to explain" and "get login working for connection" are the type of statements that I expect. BTW, most sites have a landing page before login that helps with confusion. So many start with Login page, even though I always say we should not do that.