Week 14: Softs and Tweaks

Week 14 started off with a bang, as Monday morning was Soft Opening, or “softs.” During softs, ETC faculty members came to our project room to see our product, and give us feedback on what we might think about changing in the two weeks before the semester ends. Faculty members visited our room in groups of 3-4, and stayed for 20 minutes. Since we wanted to get as much feedback as possible, we could not have the faculty watch a full episode of Relationship Status, which would be about ten minutes long. On the other hand, we still wanted the faculty to have some introduction to the show before we gave them our product. Thus, we abridged Episode 4 to be around 5 minutes long, and had the faculty watched that shortened version. Then, we gave them our product with no context, and waited to see if they could figure out how to use it.

Faculty reaction to our product was mixed. Some faculty members felt that we had done a good job meeting the requirements we were given by the client. Others were dissatisfied with our usage of AR. However, the faculty were nearly unanimous in their desire for us to iterate upon the UI. We spent the rest of the week tweaking the UI to make the experience flow clearer for users.