1. Express your kindness!

2. Introduction Problem and Solution Online Usability Study Recap Revised Interface Design Prototype Overview Prototype Demonstration Tools Used Summary Overview

3. Alisa Yamanaka Danny Kitt Haochen Wei Jared Jones Yuna Shim Team Members

4. People are generally good Difficult to express kindness towards others Provide service that makes intelligent suggestions for random acts of kindness Provide tools to help organize others Make it easy to find volunteer events that fit into a user’s schedule Tailored to each individual based on location, time available, budget and interests Problem and Solution

5. With high-fidelity prototype Easy, moderate and difficult tasks but the success rates were not much different General comments: Confusing interactions due to the wording Menu names are not clear Too many clicks required to complete tasks Online Usability Study

6. Suggested UI changes Change button labeling Improve date/time pickers Unify style/design Add button to My Events page to Search Improve requirements indicator Add volunteers specification Add event reminders Show comments of other users Online Usability Study

7. upLift Before and After Medium-fidelity prototype High-fidelity prototype Interactive prototype #1

8. Revised Design Built on Android 4.0 Made it more “Androidy” Applied “Halo Theme” and “Action Bar” based on the design guideline Fixed issues found by online usability study

9. Revised Design Changed the menu name “Act Later” to “Find Events” Added short descriptions of what each menu is to reduce the confusion

10. Revised Design More information about the suggestion To encourage more people to do the act Pick a suggestion “I’m finished” Give a rating Pick a suggestion Read rating and feedback “I’m finished” Give a rating and feedback

11. Revised Design Used tabs for “MyEvents” Users can jump to “Find Events”, “Organize Others” screen when there’s no events signed up for or organizing

12. Prototype Overview The Action Bar

13. Prototype Overview The “Halo Theme”

14. Prototype Overview

15. Act Now – Perform a random act of kindness for a stranger

16. Prototype Overview Find Events – Browse through events that others have organized

17. Prototype Overview Organize Others – Create an event for other upLift users to attend

18. Prototype Overview My Events – See events that the user will attend or have created

19. Tools Project repository: Google Code Android 4.0 SDK in Eclipse Mercurial Eclipse plugin for version control

20. upLift Before and After Medium-fidelity prototype High-fidelity prototype Interactive prototype #1 iOS Not very good usability Old Android theme Improved usability, not perfect Android 4.0 guideline Can be demonstrated with actual device Much better usability More features

21. Different learning curves, but made a lot of progress Most of the features were implemented Prototype is running locally only A little bit of hard code Will improve more after the pilot usability study Good position for next phase of project Wrap-up