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Andy's Comments & Feedback:

Concept: a digital hear-say news service and an
aggregator of the people's happiness level passed on peer-to-peer. What I am
interested in is do Bhutanese social customs allow people to 'speak' to one
another without having a prior relationship or that you can just intervene
into someone's personal space as you pass by? I make this comment because in
Finland and Iceland, for example, when people go walking in the wilderness,
they do not like to be disturbed, not even to say hello! So, is such a
concept socially acceptable? In your higher fidelity prototypes, I would
like for you to include actual news stories from Bhutan. Sheryl asked how it
is that you can you agree or disagree with a story - the problem is that we
do not necessarily know what stories you're talking about - since you did
not show as actual news stories. Again, the main issue is how do people form
opinions of stories? Is disagreeing with a story acceptable? How is this
linked comment?

general feedback:
The most common errors in the prototypes were:

1. The visual and interactive prototypes were combined haphazardly such
that the prototype contained glaring errors in visual presentation (such as
choice of colours and fonts) and in interaction.
2. No functional prototype was provided.
3. The submissions were not representative of two weeks worth of work
on your prototypes. Many seemed as if they were completed in a few hours.
4. The lack of testing of the prototypes on either the PDA or the
mobile phone. I cannot impress upon you enough the need to do continuous
cycles of development and testing on the phones.



My main concern, though, is the rather sloppy errors such as typographical
errors in the user interface, poor choice of sample images, poor choice of
sample text, incompatible cases in the fonts, etc. If these are to be
prototypes, they should get the concept right in one or more dimensions.
There were very few presentations yesterday in which any of the prototypes
presented were correct and there were none which would have been suitable
for a client presentation.