Short update on the MarkUs UI/UX design work

After finishing the prototypes for the grader assignment view, I moved on to re-designing the group formation tab.  Here are some prototypes:

Group Formation: Adding a student to a group

Group Formation: Removing a student from an existing group

Group Formation: Filtering -- Only show valid group formations

Group Formation: Filtering -- Only show invalid group formations

They can also be found on the MarkUs project blog here.  These prototypes will be used in a simple usability session this week, and I will be reworking these prototypes according to the usability feedback we get from the session.  More updates to come! :D

Last week, a small group of MarkUs team members spent a good hour in the #markus IRC channel going through my first batch of prototypes.  We also took this opportunity to hammer out some of the usability issues in the current release of MarkUs.  So instead of putting together meeting minutes for this UI/UX meeting, I decided to put together a usability design report that laid out the issues discussed, what our next steps are, and what the rationale is behind these design decisions.

Professor Karen Reid and I just went through this design plan, and it is now posted on the MarkUs project blog.  Please check it out here.