Hi-Fi Prototype

The feedback we received in regard to our lo-fi prototype was in two parts. One: There were too many words or spaces for words on the pages we'd designed. And two: The designs were very static and lacked motivation for user interaction. Due to this response, our group then decided to focus in on making a dynamic and interactive version of our design that could rely mostly on images and headings to communicate with users. 

After presenting our low-fidelity prototype to the class and receiving feedback, our group began working on our high-fidelity prototype. We decided not to use Figma, mostly because all three of us were struggling to work on the project effectively at the same time. Instead, we switched to another program called JustInMind, which would actually cause us just as many problems, but by the time we figured that out, there wasn't enough time to learn Figma and re-create our entire hi-fi prototype. 

Finally, after multiple rounds of workshopping and critiques, our group finished our final high-fidelity prototype that we ended up presenting to our client. We kept most of the layout the same, though we decided to drop the page for all majors and minors, since the UCCS academics page contains a PDF containing that information. Instead, we focused more on refining the academics homepage layout and the program finder tool itself. The final bout of feedback we received was that our design was good, but needed polishing, and that some of the elements we had introduced were redundant or uninteresting. We wanted to work to make the overall design simple and visually appealing so that it would come across as approachable and highly usable to our audiences, and so we took this criticism and focused on making clear 'compartments' for our pages so that users wouldn't have to do much navigating or thinking in order to achieve their tasks.