Fourth Week Posting

1. Discuss the progress on each task since the last week's posting:

Troy and Becca met to set up tasks for first session with participants.

We conducted our first prototyping session with four participants. It was more of a contextual inquiry session where we asked the participants to complete three exercises and discuss after each.

exercise one (20 minutes):

on cards write about 1) how your finances are organized, 2) adjectives/phrases that describe how your finances are organized (more?)
- - X cards per person (marked on back to keep track)

- - use cards to create an affinity diagram as a group - ask the group to look for any themes that might have appeared

exercise two (20 minutes):

what might make the process of organizing your finances easier or more enjoyable (real or unreal)?

- - X cards per person (marked on back to keep track)

- - use cards to create an affinity diagram as a group - ask the group to look for any themes that might have appeared

exercise three (20 minutes):

Group discussion

* If all of these traits existed in a character, who would that person be? (How might that character act in X scenario?)
* Talk about how this could be done (with a device).





From this session we learned a lot about our participants, their mental models, how they approach organizing their receipts, their anxieties, and frustrations. We wanted to know what matters to them in their process.

Additionally, we wanted to see what they could bring to the table if given no restrictions on a interface's functionality.

We have conducted two more brainstorming sessions and have built the initial prototype.


2. Outline the tasks and who is doing what in the coming week.

We will conduct one more session as a group to iron out any other kinks prior to the second session with our participants on Monday the 19th.