6 - Alex Li

In project 3, our group wanted to add the actual home screen of YouTube as an option on the homepage. When you are signed in, YouTube wants to cater to their users so they show your subscriptions and not the actual YouTube homepage. The user’s mental model of features on YouTube is to go to a site that you can play video. Very basically. But for some people they want to see the homepage of YouTube but they have to sign out of their account in order to do that which we thought was a problem and could be redesigned. 

“Mental model is what people believe to be true based pretty much on their experiences and how it relates to our exciting knowledge. As for implementation model it is something that needs to be designed.”

So for programmers the implementation model would just be moving some functionality around. We would need to redesign the drop down menu. We would have the subscriptions, YouTube Homepage, and recommendations. This implementation would help people very easily navigate to the actual YouTube homepage as well as see their own personal subscriptions.