FIT2001 – Assignment 3: Prototyping, Usability & Interface Design

ASSIGNMENT INFORMATION

Title: Prototyping, Usability & Interface Design

Due Dates:

Group Assignment: You will complete this assignment in your allocated team.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Marks for individual team members may vary based on peer assessment, tutor observation and discussion with the group. All team members must complete the self and peer assessment for the assignment. Failure to complete the peer assessment by the due date will most likely result in a fail mark for the assignment.

Value:

Assignment 3 is worth 14% of the final mark.

This assignment will give you the opportunity to integrate and develop your analytical, modeling and communication skills. Specifically, it will help you to:

●    understand the value of prototyping in identifying and documenting user requirements accurately and completely;

●    develop your interface design skills, considering functional requirements, personas, standards, and usability and interface design principles; and

●    develop your presentation and communication skills.

Assignment outline:

You have been given the task of gathering and documenting the requirements for a new information system for the CLAYTON Property Inspections (CPI) Company using prototyping to understand and confirm the business requirements, and design the system interfaces.

Assessment criteria:

A detailed marking scheme is available in the Assignments section on Moodle. We highly recommend you review the marking scheme before commencing the assignment.

Assignment help:

Students are encouraged to post questions about the system and the assignment on the Ed Stem forums. Please continue using the Client Communication section for any requirements related questions, and using the A3 section for assignment questions. We will have an FAQ post pinned in the A3 section. Please read the Assignment 3 FAQs, the Client Communication and the A3 forums before posting your question, as your question may have already been answered. Please do not post answers for staff to review on the forum.

NOTE: Staff will make every attempt to answer questions promptly – NOT necessarily immediately. Please note that Taylor may not be available during the weekend.

Assignment planning and management:

Assignment planning and management must be done using the Trello Kanban project management tool. Failure to actively use Trello will result in a reduction in your Team Assignment Project Management mark.

Extensions:

If there are extenuating circumstances that require an extension, please contact your lecturer and make a Special Consideration request to Central.

Submission process:

● Assignment 3 should only be submitted once via Moodle, by a single member of the team. Please note that the similarity detection software Turnitin will be enabled.

●  The filename of the submission should follow this format:

•    FIT2001_Assignment3_Team[yourTeamID].pdf

•    e.g. FIT2001_Assignment3_Team96.pdf

●   All team members are responsible for the final submission, and therefore every team member should review the final version, prior to its submission.

● Each team member must accept the digital declaration statement on Moodle. Failure to do so will result in your assignment not being submitted correctly, and thus not being marked.

●   Ideally,a single file (PDF) should contain the entire submission. If there is a need for multiple files, all files need to be in pdf format.

ASSIGNMENT REQUIREMENTS

This assignment will help you understand and develop prototypes of the business requirements of the system desired by the CPI Company.

Use the ‘CPI Detailed System Description’ and the associated sample files/forms (See Assignment 2 section of FIT2001 Moodle site), and the responses from the client in the Ed Discussion Client Communication sub-category, to complete the following tasks.

Assumptions: Please make sure to note any assumptions made for each of the tasks.

PROTOTYPING (76%)

Construct complete interface mock-up prototypes (wireframe models) for the following business functionality:

●   Manage Inspector – to include the following functionality:

-     Create, Update, Archive and View Inspector details (Admin view)

-     Manage Inspector Registration (Admin view)

.   Create and Update Registration details (Admin view)

●   Manage Customer – to include the following functionality:

-     Create/Register, Update and View details (Admin & Customer view)

-     Archive Customer details (Admin view)

●   Manage Quotation – to include the following functionality:

-     Create, Update, Archive and View Item details (Admin view)

-     Request Quotation (Customer view)

-     Manage Quotation Details (Admin view) .   Create Quotation

.   Decline Quotation Request

-     Follow Up Quotation (System & Admin view)

-     Manage Quotation Communication

.   Accept and Reject Quotation (Customer view)

.   Add Customer Communication Comment (Admin view)

The purpose of the prototypes is to show that you understand the system requirements for the required business functionality, and have thought about error handling, messages, standards, usability and human computer interaction principles in your design. Note that insights from the Week 8 materials will be valuable, as will the following resources:

● https://asktog.com/atc/principles-of-interaction-design/

● https://www.cs.umd.edu/users/ben/goldenrules.html

● https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/

You must include:

●   The prototypes for the required business functionality

●   A brief description of how each screen works (use Applied 9 student support

material as a guide as to how you can do this – it is NOT meant to be a proper, detailed user guide).  You must include ALL error messages and any other messages associated with the functionality of the screens.

●   The Customer persona to assist with the development of your interfaces – you will need to make assumptions as you cannot conduct the research

●   A research plan to create your persona - a brief description (not more than 300 words) of the research you would conduct and analysis you would do if it was possible

You may use any tool you wish to create the mock-ups of the system. Please ensure that your tool will be available for your use for the demonstration of your prototypes in Week 12, as some tools only have a free 30-day trial. You may want to consider one the following options to develop your prototypes:

Balsamiq (only 30 day trial), Figma, Diagrams.net, Miro, Lucidchart (paid service).

Deliverables:

1.   Prototypes – showing each screen, a description of how it works – including all error messages and any other messages, and all the links between the screens for the specified functionality

2.   Individual Customer Persona and research plan for developing the persona

DEMONSTRATION OF PROTOTYPES (20%)

+ (Minus 50% of individual mark for Assignment 3 for non-attendance at demonstration)

Using the prototypes you have created and submitted, demonstrate/explain to your client how the prototypes work and how all their business needs are addressed. Discuss the functionality in terms of the various personas (users) using the system.

Please note the following:

●   ALL members of each team must participate in the presentation - we would like all of you to get the opportunity to practise your presentation skills;

●   You must consider the most logical and concise way to present your prototypes within the 15 minutes timeframe - Practice together as a team to ensure that you meet the time requirement, as your presentation will be stopped at the 15-minute mark and you will be assessed on whatever you have presented during that time.

●   You will be assessed on your prototypes based on the assessment criteria you have

been given. The tutors will be assessing your prototypes during the presentation, and will also use your uploaded prototypes to finalise your mark;

●   You have ~15 minutes to demonstrate your prototypes

o Make sure that you install MirrorOp so that you can project to the big screens during your demonstration

Deliverable:

●   You are not required to hand in anything for this component of the assignment.

● Attendance at the demonstration is mandatory.  Failure to attend the demonstration without a valid reason and appropriate evidence, will result in a 50% reduction of your final individual mark for Assignment 3.