Date: 18th November 2010
We're still working on finishing the remaining wireframes. For each page we worked on, we had a simple discussion about it, as we left the pages that requires a lot of user interaction and results for the last because it's a big task, and probably the most important for the website.
For the event calendar page, we had a discussion of how to show the events, by calendar or by a simple search by the postcode. In this, we wanted it to be as easy as possible for the user to find events that might interest them. We've all agreed on having the user to search by postcode or location, and show results of events in that area.
Another thing we've argued about was should events be added by the library, and whether we have to also design a page for that or not. Each event is going to be clickable, if the user is interested in one, a new page will open containing the name of the event, location, time, contact details, and a brief description about that event. And underneath that on the bottom right, there will be a link which will lead to "find a library" page.
Next page was the reading groups, and we've all agreed that its going to be similar to the find a library, a user can search for reading groups using the post code or area. I've also suggested that on the right side of the search, we can should have "add a reading group" option, this way, if a user was more interested in adding their own group instead of searching for one, they have the option to do without going through the search. Depending on the hierarchy of importance for the items on the page, the search is going to be the center attention then having the add option next to it.
Results will be simple, since there isn’t too much information to show, it's going to show the group name, what is it about, and contact details, for example:
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Group name | About | Contact
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group1 | book1 | mobile and email
And so on. Another option we're going to add at the bottom of the page, either if the search turns out with zero results, or the user didn't find a group with their interest, is the a link to "add a reading group" page.
(Can't find a reading group in your area meeting your interests? click here to start your own).
The "add a reading group" page is going to be a simple form:
Group name:
About/details:
Contacts: phone and email
Next, is find / browse reviews, browse and search should be in the same page, giving the user the browse option (list of categories) and also, the search. Each category will be a drop down list. As for the search, the user can either search by title, author, or keywords.
When we started the add a review page, we had an argument about if we should have the user put their name as the first field or not, I preferred that the username field should be the first one, this way he won't be confused between his personal details and the details of the review, but the argument ended by all agreeing to have the field right before the review textarea, and the user have the option to either fill it or not.
The form:
Book title:
Author:
Genre: (dropdown menu)
Tagline/review name: (This will show as the title for each review in the book's page)
Star rating: (graphics)
Your name:
Review: (with a max character counter)
While working the wireframes, we have made a few changed to the sitemap that I've done. This is the list of changes:
-Change the "individual details for events" page from 4.1.1 to 4.1.n
-Add a book page 6.2.n.1 under book reviews.
-Add a confirm page 6.1.1 under book reviews > add form
TO DO FOR NEXT WEEK:
-Amend the sitemap
-Read more about CSS
