ITC504 Assessment item 4/ Working Prototype

Value: 40% ITC504 Assessment item 4/ Working Prototype

Due date: 01-Oct-2017

Return date: 24-Oct-2017

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Task

Overview

Your assignment is to develop the final design for the Solar Home Management display. The team will be required to submit a working prototype in presentation mode.

Team Setup

This assignment is the last of the team assignments for this subject. The rationale for using a team approach is that most IT design and development studios work in teams of between 2-5 designers/developers for each design problem.

Team Member Responsibilities

Each team member will be assessed on:

• The final design presented by the team;
• The individual contributions that they have made to the design. This will be shown by the entries that they have made in the Team Forum;

Team members should note that:

• A total of 30% of the total marks for this assignment are for individual contributions.These include:
  • Reasoning behind the design decisions for the submitted design (20%), and
  • Discussion on how to implement the usability recommendations. (10%)
• A team member without any individual contributions in the Team Forum will be regarded as having not contributed to the design. This will result in either reduced marks or no marks being awarded to that team member for this assignment. 

Team Tasks:

1. Create the final design for the Solar Home Management display. This design must:
   1. Meet all the requirements laid out in the case study; (10 marks)
   2. Include all pages required for the final implementation of the design; (10 marks)
   3. Include all screen components for each page; (10 marks)
   4. Include all navigation components;  (10 marks)
   5. Include all the improvements recommended by the usability evaluation. (10 marks)
2. Create a click-through prototype of your design using BalsamiqMockups Links in presentation mode (see for details). When the links in your presentation mode mockup are working correctly, then export your presentation to PDF (see . This PDF file is what you will submit for assessment. (20 marks)
3. Indicate in your team forum, the reasoning behind your design decisions. This reasoning must demonstrate input from each member of the team. In your team forum, select all the messages that relate to this topic, then press the Collect button; click File and select Print. Print these messages to a PDF file. (20 marks)
4. Indicate in your team forum how the usability recommendations were implemented and the reasoning behind the method of implementation. In your team forum, select all the messages that relate to this topic, then press the Collect button; click File and select Print. Print these messages to a PDF file. (10 marks).

Important Note

Your team design will be assessed for usability as part of the final evaluation of this assignment. Your team should ensure that:

• All wireframes are as complete as possible;
• The team forum is updated and as complete as possible;
• The wireframes are correctly linked, and the links have been tested prior to submission.

Rationale

This assignment aligns with the following learning outcomes of this subject:

• be able to explain the relevance of integrating aspects of the human, social and organisational context into the design process;
• be able to demonstrate and articulate the importance of the principles of design that are applicable to the design of an interface;
• be able to evaluate the effective usability of an interface and recommend changes to improve its usability;
• be able to design a user interface to meet a given set of requirements;
• be able to design a usability strategy to ensure that an interface meets its usability goals;
• be able to interpret and evaluate usability testing results to plan interface improvements.

Identifying, designing and explaining usable interfaces for computer applications in the real world requires that you interact with colleagues, peers and various stakeholders therefore team work has been incorporated in these assessments to facilitate this.

ITC504 Assessment item 4/ Working Prototype

Marking criteria

Presentation

The discussions on design reasoning and usability recommendations are to be presented in a two separate PDF documents. These documents are to be loaded into theTurnitin.

The click-through prototype is to be loaded into the Turnitin.

Designs that are not presented in click through PDF format will not be marked.