Team Size: 3
Duration: Term
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Description
This term project is a major portion of the course. Its main purpose is
to give you hands-on experience applying some of the design concepts you
have learnt in class. As part of this project, you will learn how to storyboard,
learn how to program with a graphical user interface toolkit, and how to
write a minimalist user manual.
The project is executed in two parts: design and implementation. You
will be working in groups of three. Your group will select a simple but
interesting interactive application. You may come up with the application
from scratch, or you may decide to remodel an existing application to make
it more effective. Design evolution includes paper prototypes, a horizontal
prototype, and a moderately robust implementation using the Tcl/Tk interface
toolkit.
Deliverables
Deliverables are incremental. Over a period of time, you will hand in an
initial paper prototype and design rationale (which is presented in lab
time), and screen snapshots of a horizontal prototype and the re-design
rationale (also presented in lab time). The final deliverables are the
full working system (graded using heuristic evaluation techniques by the
course instructor), a minimalist manual, and a short design critique of
the final system. For example, one group created a a walk up and use Dinosaur
information system; another group created a Home Finder system that allows
people to search for homes to buy in the city of Calgary.
Saul Greenberg
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