Week 2
Day 9 | 28 July 2023
Upon meeting up today, our team came together to share the solutions that we had come up with to tackle
some of the feedback and requirements provided by the client. First of all, we would add an advertising banner
as requested on the home page or front pages of the app to provide users who are interested to donate to quickly
access the donations section. This also helps to increase awareness regarding the donation programs. We also
made sure to add a pause option to allow the users to not just end their donation plans but pause it. Selecting
the option to pause the donations would also bring out another menu to select how long they would wish to pause
it for. In terms of how to reduce the number of clicks, the team decided to rethink a new way to simplify the
flow of the donations by reducing the number of clicks a user has to make. More research will also be done on
identifying an algorithm to recommend the appropriate amount of money for a user to donate. The team has agreed
to regroup on monday to start working on developing the final mockup and prototype of our design.
In addition, a few usability tests and surveys were conducted in class by our team amongst 10 of our peers where 8 of them mentioned that they also agreed that reducing the number of steps and simplifying the process is the most important aspect that should be improved. This was all included in our weekly pitch video that would be submitted this week. Our team will continue to work on the improvements on our design with the same goal of making an intuitive and simplified way for users to donate through Barclays Impact.
Next week, our plan is to finalise the design of the prototype which incorporates new elements to meet the needs provided to us while also conducting more usability tests to see whether the proposed design is truly effective. We would also be sharing the new additions that we have made and our new iterated design to the client during our next meeting. The team would also continue working more on the content of the website such as a trailer for our project and designing the poster for our final submission.