Nostalgia Project Design Case Study
| Introduction
Enhancement proposal |
Recommendations for the System For a virtual community, it is very important to build a community culture. For Nostalgia, the main goal is to create an environment for the seniors to get the feelings of the past and to share their feelings with others. To achieve this, we suggest use more tools to help the user get into the virtual world. It is true that Nostalgia should be simple to keep the usage easy. The structure of the site should remain simple, but we could support more tools that have well understood meanings. Using good metaphor and direct manipulation, we can achieve the goal that "let users see more but do less". We find that the visitor of Nostalgia is limited. The visitors increased when the photo gallery was first introduced, but quickly went back down again. It further seems that the visitors are limited to a small circle. The system is now more like a book with its contents remains the same. The goal of adding more system usage could be achieved by making it more like a periodical, that is, to have new content regularly. In this way, we can attract more visitors. Therefore, we should add something new regularly to encourage them visiting the site. Our users are mostly seniors who are not familiar with computer. Therefore, real time is not appropriate. A possible method is to organize some new activities regularly, like discussion on a certain story of common interest or some other related issues. We want to make this site more interesting and thus attract more visitors. |