Consider Quality

Second Committee Meeting

We have carefully documented our progress over the past few weeks, and earlier this afternoon, we shared our recent progress during our second committee meeting. We would like to thank Dr. Ben Olshin and Will McHale for attending and providing feedback on our direction.

Our presentation started with an overview of our first committee meeting, offering a recap of concepts that we had presented and some of the feedback that we determined to be most helpful to our progress. Our earlier concepts, the consumer guide, the cellular conscious, and the personal barometer, had helped to influence our thought process and we felt that it was appropriate to restate them to explain our progress in the last month.

The remainder of the presentation focused on our prototype development, as well as gathering user feedback to refine our prototype. To explain how we came about our current model, we included the majority of our background research into existing classification and certification systems, technology, software, and user interfaces. We shared a portion of our early graphics, but focused more heavily on the latest iterations of our user interface and the overall functionality.

Feedback on our work was very positive, and we were excited to see that our recent developments were so well received. Most of the concerns raised by our committee members centered on walking both our audience and the user through our interface in an intuitive and user-friendly way. They also expressed that we should continually emphasizing the larger picture as we explain how our database and interface was developed; while the splash page and graphics are key to engaging consumers, we could not lose sight of what they represent underneath – they all tie into the economy and consumer behavior. They suggested that we map how our prototype fits into the larger context of our project in a visual sense.

Based on this feedback, we have started developing diagrams of our system and our process, and hope to tie together our work both more clearly and more concisely within the next week. From here we will revisit our graphics and user interface, but its final development would surely be accomplished with the assistance of web developers. We and our committee members agree that because the online component of our project is only a part of our project as a whole, we do not wish to emphasize it too heavily.