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		<title>Status Update: feedback on lo-fi prototypes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to understand how our design of a fashion/clothing recommender system would make sense to people, we interviewed 3 users, 2 females and 1 male.
When presenting our lo-fi wireframes, we asked the user to tell us what the website is about, what they can tell us about the task that would have led to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In order to understand how our design of a fashion/clothing recommender system would make sense to people, we interviewed 3 users, 2 females and 1 male.</p>
<p>When presenting our lo-fi wireframes, we asked the user to tell us <strong>what the website is about</strong>, what they can tell us about <strong>the task that would have led to our website</strong>. Two users get the idea that this is a site for recommending items that suit people&#8217;s personal needs, but relate it to e-commerce site. Interestingly, the third user said, &#8220;this is a fashion tutor site?&#8221;</p>
<p>All the users found the roles in the website confusing: <strong>friends, fans, fashion neighbors, follows</strong>.</p>
<p>All the users like the idea of &#8220;<strong>Hot or Not</strong>&#8220;, thinking that it&#8217;s an interesting idea to seduce contribution. One user even said, &#8220;oh, love it!&#8221; However, one user complained that some site with similar feature doesn&#8217;t let the user to stop it manually, which becomes annoying.</p>
<p>All users couldn&#8217;t differentiate between &#8220;<strong>add an item</strong>&#8221; and &#8220;<strong>upload an item</strong>&#8220;. After explaining to them, they soon got the idea. Similar stories happened to:</p>
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<li>&#8220;<strong>comment</strong>&#8221; (like Wall or Shoutbox) in the Profile page &#8211; confused about how it works (&#8220;Who will do the comments? Me or others?&#8221;).</li>
<li>&#8220;<strong>bookmark</strong>&#8221; &#8211; think that it&#8217;s bookmarking a web page.</li>
<li>&#8220;<strong>fashion neighbor</strong>&#8221; &#8211; either think it as fashion brands or people who physically live nearby.</li>
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<p>Two users specifically expressed that they would love to have the power to <strong>customize how they want to be recommended</strong>, such as based on style or my &#8220;group&#8221;. (This user asked previously, &#8221; Can I join a group so that I can also get a specific group&#8217;s news feed and be recommended by it?&#8221;)</p>
<p>In Account Setting page, one user suggest that in terms of body type, we use <strong>pictures of body shapes</strong> instead of words that describe body types because they felt it&#8217;s too subjective to say oneself is skinny or heavy.</p>
<p>In the search interface, one user felt it make more sense to <strong>sort by categories</strong>, such as pants, t-shirt, skirts and etc. Also, this user would like to search in <strong>&#8220;title&#8221; or &#8220;tag&#8221;.</strong></p>
<p>The users&#8217; opinions on whether we should use exact price range on items or only price symbols differ a lot. Some said we should use money symbols because we&#8217;re not actually selling outfit. Some wants to know the exact number because they felt it&#8217;s useful anyway to have it in mind.</p>
<p>One user admitted that she would love to see others&#8217; outfit, but is lazy to upload hers.</p>
<p>These are the comments we got from 3 users. Pretty insightful, isn&#8217;t it? We&#8217;re now working on incorporating their feedback into our interface and hopefully, they will like the new one better!</p>
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