CSC 360

Spring 2015

Craig Miller

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Assignments

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Team Project 2
Information and Visual Design
Due Friday May 8 before 11:30pm

Overview

This is the second installment in the team-based User-Centered Design project. This installment includes the following components:

  • Information Design
  • Visual Interaction Design
  • Task List for Evaluation

To successfully complete this project, you do not need to design for all of the functionality specified in the first project. Instead, you may focus on a few core tasks. As a rough guideline, your final design should have 2-5 major screen shots with accompanying explanations.

Information Design

The information design provides the high-level organization and action sequence of your interactive system. To communicate the information design, you may use site maps and flow charts. These diagrams should be complemented with explanations of user input and output that draw upon information in the first project. One strategy is to write user-based scenarios that explain your diagrams.

Visual Interaction Design

The detailed design communicates how your interactive system appears on a screen. To represent screens, you may choose a technology convenient to you, including hand-drawn screens, visio, HTML with CSS, or any drawing package. As with the information design, you will need text that explains the interaction of the screens.

Task List

Prepare a list of core tasks for your design. These should be tasks that you ask test users to do on prototypes of your design.

The Report

Your report should include the sections noted above. You may refer (or link) to screen shots. Make sure you explain your designs!

Submission

Submit your report to D2L. PDF files are preferred, but any common format (e.g. Word) is acceptable.

Grading

This project is worth 20 points. The following criteria will be used for scoring the report:

  • Report organization and presentation. The report is well written and organized so that it is easy to find required information.
  • Report completeness. The report has all required contents. You are strongly encouraged to review all requirements on this page before you submit your report.
  • Process. Interaction process is explained.
  • Supported findings. The report draws upon persona or scenario information from the first project.