After discussing the scenario with several Erasmus students and analyzing comments given by professor we found out that:
- Elina’s character is realistic
- Situation described in scenario is natural and logical
- Scenario doesn’t give much information about the system itself
Here is an audio recording of a design session about the above mentioned scenario.
This is a short summary:
Q: What’s your impression about this scenario? Is it real?
A: Yes, it’s real and I had a feeling that this page will really help Erasmus students to find interesting information they need.
Q: What are the weak points of the scenario?
A: I would like to see how you are going to introduce your events on the website. Will you have videos, photos or some descriptions of events or maybe you could have some examples…?
Q: But is the situation real?
A: Yes, it feels like real it’s almost like that
Q: Are the personas realistic?
A: Yes because we already have friends who are skeptical about parties because all the parties are the same and not interesting, so they are bored.
Q: And are their actions the same?
A: Yes. They are meeting, drinking before the meeting, and then going to the party.
Q: Do you know somebody who was in the same situation as described?
A: Yes, a lot of our friends are now in the same situation because they tried all the parties, so they are kind of sitting and thinking: “oh it will be tomorrow, I’ll kill myself because there is nothing else to do…” So, if you create something new and interesting that will be really cool!
Q: Do you think students are interested in underground parties?
A: Yes, why not! There are a lot of underground clubs (I don’t know if in Estonia) and those are really cool places and people are going there.
Q: Do you think that students might be interested in cultural events (concerts or exhibitions) more than in parties?
A: Yes, I think they will be. Yesterday me and my friend were discussing that and he said there is nothing more to see and he would like to see some cultural events or maybe some concerts or something like that, so it would be really nice because Tallinn is quite small town, you can see it all during one semester. If you stay here for 2 years you really need something more.
Q: What could be the most important feature of thepartyguide.com? Transportation?
A: Yes, it would be nice and prices for sure, because all students care about that. What kind of music is playing, dress code maybe.
Q: Why don’t you check cultural events in the internet? Have you at least tried to do that?
A: Yes. But it would be really comfortable if there was one website. You don’t need to search something else.
Q: Is it annoying to find information on the Internet?
A: Well, my friend really got angry when he couldn’t find anything.
Q: Why couldn’t he? Was it too messy or all in Estonian?
A: First of all, it was in Estonian, secondly he was trying to find something about Tallinn as European Capital of Culture and some events connected with it and he could not because it either was in Estonian or too messy. At first he couldn’t even find the webpage and said there is nothing else to see.
Posted by Tatjana Pavlenko
DATA Gang 
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