Suggestions from Professor user testing

[AndrewSalls]

Some of these are just ideas I had

• [x] Increase font size
• [x] Modify colors of solar panel table to look better
• [x] Create an intro page
• [x] Update text to make it clear when information is designed for businesses (including title)
• [x] Replace the US flag from the language toggle with a UK flag (Potentially consider using the flag emojis found on AEE's website)
• [x] Adjust flags of language toggle to use the same scale
• [x] Modify solar panel examples to all be real
• [x] Include solar panel examples we found during fieldwork
• [ ] Investigate and potentially change using width and height instead of m^2. This could be an option for the user.
• [x] Add tool tips (the i icon) to explain what each section of the calculator means
• [x] Create something that explains our research and the need for the app for the app presentation
• [x] Specify that cost of solar panels (and loan %s if we include that) are as of a certain date
• [ ] Potentially allow user to select pitched roofs as an option
• [x] Add links to manufacturers and solar panel info page
• [x] Reword calculator fields to make their purpose more clear
• [x] Potentially remove WPI logo
• [ ] Have graph have options for either paying entirely with cash, entirely by loan, or by the percentage entered by user
• [x] Potentially modify colors to differentiate from AEE
• [x] Display total costs and savings in Lek along with kWh/month savings and payback period
• [x] Change tutorial to Help page or find better wording
• [ ] Split calculator into a calculator that finds the total cost of the system and how much it generates, and one that finds overall cost and payback period based on loan information
• [ ] Display or give options for "default" loan percentages
• [ ] Allow loan to use monthly or annual payment scheme
• [x] Round kWh per month output
• [ ] Create a table that displays the same information in the graph based on the design of https://www.pveducation.org/pvcdrom/payback-period
• [ ] Update terminology to be more accurate to actual financial terms (look at ProCredit loan site for ideas)
• [x] Add questions to the Help page even if we have not yet gotten answers yet from fieldwork
• [x] Choose whether panel cost displays in euro or lek on the table

Suggesitons from the morning of 11/22/2022

• [x] Deal with commas v periods for numbers
• [x] Padding on left side of pages

Homepage

• [x] Larger font
• [x] Change transparency of white box on top of image
• [x] Make sure the images we use are copyright free
• [x] Make titles and descriptions more succinct
• [x] Make buttons smaller with bullet points next to them
• [x] Make bullet points succinct

Calculator

• [x] Use the manufacturers, not the panel model, as a link
• [x] Add sample pop up descriptions to fields
• [x] Add a calculator for determining the number of panels you need to cover 100% of your electricity consumption. You would input how much electricity you use.
• [x] show all select options in albanian and english

Resources

• [ ] Show the solar data per municipality on the muni dropdown
• [x] Add bullet points for sections
• [ ] Use more personal language and less salesman-like language

[AndrewSalls]

Let me know which of these are not being worked on that I should prioritize

[tjcoppola234]

Ill do this one: Display total costs and savings in Lek along with kWh/month savings and payback period

[AndrewSalls]

Image is from https://www.pexels.com/photo/black-and-silver-solar-panels-159397/ (CC0)