{"id":451,"date":"2017-11-18T01:48:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T01:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/tada\/?p=451"},"modified":"2017-11-18T01:48:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T01:48:30","slug":"week-12-iteration-and-playtest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/tada\/index.php\/2017\/11\/18\/week-12-iteration-and-playtest-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 12: Iteration and Playtest #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the feedback we have on Monday, we iterated on the webapp and made several changes:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-452\" src=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/tada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tada-playtest-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"972\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/tada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tada-playtest-2.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/tada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tada-playtest-2-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/tada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tada-playtest-2-768x389.jpg 768w, https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/tada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tada-playtest-2-1024x518.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>We fixed a lot of bugs, such as video popping up too many times when the user hovers over several dots, and the <span style=\"background-color: #f6d5d9;\">label\u00a0<\/span>feature breaking after several selections.<\/li>\n<li>We also polished the UI according to feedback by having a label bar that can be hidden and headings for each section.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After the changes, we held another playtest session today. We invited 2 guests who work at EA to playtest our game. Both of them are analysts. We received lots of feedback from the playtest, and will highlight some of them here:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The hover view looks nice, but it&#8217;s difficult to navigate out of the big circle to view the other small dots.<\/li>\n<li>Wasn&#8217;t sure how the label was sorted at the top, possible to sort the labels in a meaningful way.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0VIsual animations of the dots were not meaningful when switching the axes.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Is it possible to extract data from this interface for other analytics purposes?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>A lot of the feedback was on feature improvements that we are looking into. Hence, this solidifies the direction that we should go in.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one of the playtesters for our product:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-453\" src=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/tada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Untitled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/tada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Untitled-1.jpg 1680w, https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/tada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Untitled-1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/tada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Untitled-1-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/tada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Untitled-1-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/tada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Untitled-1-750x420.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The current version of our live website is the one we used for playtest: <a href=\"http:\/\/tada.etc.cmu.edu\">tada.etc.cmu.edu.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next week, we&#8217;ll consolidate the feedback and begin working on implementing critical improvements\/features.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the feedback we have on Monday, we iterated on the webapp and made several changes: We fixed a lot of bugs, such as video popping up too many times when the user hovers over several dots, and the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/tada\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/tada\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/tada\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/tada\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/tada\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/tada\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/tada\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/tada\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/tada\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/tada\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}