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Assignment 2 – Project Design Proposal

Value: 15%

Project Design Proposal

Your project brief has been accepted by Senior Management and a design project has been formally commenced. You have been appointed as both Project Manager and Chief Designer for the project.

Your tasks are to:

1. Write a Project Design Proposal that covers the following:

Design Aims

• What are your aims as the Interface Designer?
• What are your aims as a Project Manager?

Outline of the proposed Design

• Use Case Diagram
• Brief Use Case Description
• Design Summaries

(Example: Screen­1: Home Page/ Dashboard contents: menu of user tasks, flower search, help?) Write design summaries for each screen? Add your own ideas/features Write textual descriptions like this for as many screen/tasks you expect to include in book app. Ex: if your design has 10/15 screens you may have to write 10/15 screen descriptions.)

Evaluation Method

• Select 2/3 evaluation method and give description how it will help with this case study such as

1. Expert Review 2. Survey (Questionnaire) 3. Usability Tests 4. Acceptance Tests 5. Evaluation During Active Use 6. Controlled Psychologically Oriented Experiments

The Project Design Proposal should outline firstly your design aims for the project and how they will meet the user requirements. Your design aims may be to improve the following:

Time to learn > How long does it take for typical members of the community to learn relevant task? > Speed of performance > How long does it take to perform relevant benchmarks? > Rate of errors by users > How many and what kinds of errors are made during benchmark tasks? > Retention over time > Frequency of use and ease of learning help make for better user retention > Subjective satisfaction > Allow for user feedback via interviews, free-form comments and satisfaction scales

You should then give a brief outline of your design. This should be mainly written, rather than be drawn, and you should describe and discuss HOW your design will enhance the user experience (UX) of the user while meeting their requirements, You may also want to refer to design principles to support your argument.

Finally, you need to discuss how you will test your design for usability, UX, and its fit to the requirements. Again you will want to support your argument with reference to principles. You do not need to produce a full test plan at this time.

Rationale

The rationale of this assignment is to test students’ ability to capture, develop and understand user requirements for an interface design project and develop those requirements into Objectives, Outputs and Targets. From the requirements, the student should also be able to develop the Success Criteria for the design. The assignment will also test the ability of students to plan and develop a design that meets the user requirements and enhances the user experience.

Marking criteria

Question	HD	DI	CR	PS	FL
Design Aim	Comprehensive and clear statement of design aim showing how it meets all user requirements, with references	Very detailed statement of design aim showing how it meets most user requirements, with references	Thorough statement of design aim showing how it meets many user requirements, generally with references	Adequate statement of design aim showing how it meets some user requirements, with some references	Inadequate or incomplete statement of design aim that does not show how it meets user requirements with few or no references
Outline of proposed design	Comprehensive and clear discussion of design, with clear examples, showing how the design meets all user requirements and design principles with references	Detailed discussion of design, with examples, showing how the design meets most user requirements and design principles with references	Thorough discussion of design, with examples, showing how the design meets most user requirements and design principles with some references	Adequate discussion of design showing how the design meets many user requirements and design principles with some references	Inadequate or incomplete discussion of design, with no examples, fails to show how the design meets user requirements and design principles with few or no references
Proposed evaluation method	Comprehensive and clear statement of proposed evaluation method with excellent discussion of reasons for use, expected outcomes and analysis plans	Detailed statement of proposed evaluation method with good discussion of reasons for use, outcomes and analysis plans	Thorough statement of proposed evaluation method with reasonable discussion of reasons for use, expected outcomes and analysis plans	Adequate statement of proposed evaluation method with some discussion of reasons for use, expected outcomes and analysis plans	Inadequate or incomplete statement of proposed evaluation method with no discussion of reasons for use, expected outcomes and analysis plans
Presentation, spelling and Grammar (-5 marks)	Up to 5 marks may be deducted for poor presentation, spelling and grammar
Referencing(-5 marks)	Up to 5 marks will be deducted for not providing / following the proper APA style of referencing. Note that the guide for APA referencing is provided in the Resource section of Interact site

Presentation

Include your and subject details with your answer in a MS Word document. Your Project Design Proposal should NOT exceed three (3) pages, excluding references and diagrams. You will need to reference all literature using the APA 6th edition referencing style.