The world’s easiest database – On the go! Adam Pflug

 People use Excel ◦ Low barriers to entry  Excel has some problems ◦ Collaboration ◦ Sharing ◦ Querying  Data is hard to access when away from your computer

 Initial Interviews  Mockup  Paper Prototype  Interactive Prototype  Final Design

 Purpose ◦ Identify Scenarios  3 Subjects  Initial Expectations ◦ Like paper lists  After interview ◦ Closer to printouts from the internet ◦ Existing mobile tools  Scenarios from ◦ Existing mobile scenarios ◦ Desktop database usage

 Identified 10 scenarios  Narrowed to 3 key scenarios ◦ Different interactions / data ◦ Representative  Scenarios ◦ Recipe database ◦ Manager task tracking ◦ Recording travel miles

 Follow-up interviews ◦ Flesh out scenarios ◦ Asked users to model the data on desktop ◦ Discussed mobile use of this data

 Read and Write required  Subset of total functionality  Tasks tend to involve searching  Flexibility really important  Focus + Context  Private Date on Public blists  Selecting from lists easier than text entry

 3 Participants  Limited Experience  Variety of tasks  Interesting behaviors ◦ Explore the application  Problems ◦ Edit View ◦ Sorting of items ◦ Application flow issues  Fidelity causing problems?

 Key Changes ◦ Changed titles for clarity ◦ Revamped edit view layout ◦ Filter behavior more obvious ◦ Control over sorting  Limitations ◦ Drag and drop ◦ Next/Previous Row ◦ Data does not persist ◦ Interactivity

Paper PrototypeInteractive Prototype

Paper PrototypeInteractive Prototype

 Further tweaks to titles  Change toggle switches for image/rating display  Editing of image fields  Display/Edit Blist-in-a-blist  More in-depth display customization  More intelligent default displays  Discovery of public databases?  Offline access? (SQLite?)