We connect helpful tutorswith hardworking

students

Alex Wang Erin Singer Pat Briggs Elia Ahadi

Problem

• It’s hard to advertise yourself and your skills effectively.

• It’s difficult to coordinate schedules.

For Tutors

For Tutees & Parents• It’s difficult and time

consuming to find a helpful tutor that you can trust.

An app that helps connect hardworking students with helpful, reliable tutors –

In other words, Tutera

Solution

Overview of Talk

• Heuristic Evaluation Results

• Overview of Revised Design

• Prototype Implementation

Status

• Demonstration of Prototype

Heuristic Evaluation Results

Overall:• No level 4s

• 7 total level 3s

• Linking mistakes were very

confusing

• Missing back buttons

• No help and documentation

A Level 3 Violation Discussion

No combined tutor or tutee

interface:

• We totally agree

• But… we already have two interfaces

• A job for Tutera 2.0?

Revised Design Overview

• All screens link properly

• Back button problem is solved

• Time selection process revised

• More visibility earlier on in the process

• Help and documentation has been added

Before After

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Before After

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Prototype Implementation Status

Tools Being Used

• Web application using Ruby on Rails

• Hosting on Heroku

• BUT, with the Xcode tool we plan to:- Create a (practically) empty

iPhone app- Loads a web browser that goes

to our site- Will work just like a regular app

(but won’t do anything without an internet connection)

Implemented Features

Tutor search:

• Can select “Find a Tutor”

• Can type in a subject and location/current

location

• Can get a list of tutors who teach said

subject

• Can see a tutor’s profile

Implemented Features

Tutor search continued:

• Can select to book a tutor

• Can select a time based on tutor’s

availability

• Can select a location

• Can view confirmation details and submit

info

(Mostly) Implemented Features

• Mostly implemented creating a profile

• Mostly implemented entering credit card

feature

• Filter incomplete

• Ability to measure distances incomplete

Unimplemented Features

Tutor search:

• Filter incomplete

• Ability to measure distances incomplete

• Profile creation in process

Unimplemented Features

• Task 2 & 3

- Tutor sign up

- Recommending a tutor

Helper Techniques• No Wizard of Oz Techniques so far

• Hard-coded Data:

- We don’t have access to

enough tutors

to populate our search

- Lots of fake tutors, times,

locations, etc.

- Our database is fully

functional, so if we

had real data, it’d work

Prototype Time!

Thank you! Any questions?