Project 1: Submit Project Plan

Purpose

Your goal is to create a design for a software interface.  You will experience the scope of the design process from brainstorming ideas and gathering information about users’ needs to storyboarding, prototyping, and finally, testing and refining your product.
As you work on the software interface, you will demonstrate your ability to apply fundamental Human-Computer Interaction principles to interface analysis, design, and implementation. You will be responsible for delivering project components to your professor at several points during the course.

Action Items

You will need to decide on an idea for an interface. It could be a web site, a mobile app, an appliance touch screen, etc. Don’t make your idea too broad. Focus on something that solves a problem or fills a need. Another approach is to take an interface that is very poor and reimagine it.  Your project idea needs to be sufficiently complex to show your ability to design multiple screens and interaction flows as the user carries out a small number of tasks.
1) Brainstorm ideas. You might want to use a free, online mind-mapping tool like SpiderScribe or Mindomo. Here are some questions you might want to consider to focus your brainstorming:
a) Think of a service you or your friends use. What’s the biggest avoidable hassle (inconvenience) customers must endure?
b) What happens in your daily routine that is complex or confusing? How could you simplify it?
c) Think of a domain that interests you: shopping, elementary education, exercise, social media, etc. What possibilities are there to do something new or better? What might be redesigned for newer or different technologies like smart phones or gaming platforms?
2) Narrow your choices down to the best 2 or three ideas.

Pick Your Idea and Begin to Think About Your Potential Users
1) Submit your idea to your professor for approval.
2) Format your submission using the following sections:
a) The Problem
b) Why It’s Interesting
c) Main Users Affected
d) Current Solutions
e) Shortcomings and Strengths of Current Solutions
f) Main Goals of Your Project

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Project 2: Review of Literature

Purpose

Your goal is to create a design for a software interface.  You will experience the scope of the design process from brainstorming ideas and gathering information about users’ needs to storyboarding, prototyping, and finally, testing and refining your product.
As you work on the software interface, you will demonstrate your ability to apply fundamental Human-Computer Interaction principles to interface analysis, design, and implementation. You will be responsible for delivering project components to your professor at several points during the course.

Action Items

You will need to decide on an idea for an interface. It could be a web site, a mobile app, an appliance touch screen, etc. Don’t make your idea too broad. Focus on something that solves a problem or fills a need. Another approach is to take an interface that is very poor and reimagine it.  Your project idea needs to be sufficiently complex to show your ability to design multiple screens and interaction flows as the user carries out a small number of tasks.
1) Brainstorm ideas. You might want to use a free, online mind-mapping tool like SpiderScribe or Mindomo. Here are some questions you might want to consider to focus your brainstorming:
a) Think of a service you or your friends use. What’s the biggest avoidable hassle (inconvenience) customers must endure?
b) What happens in your daily routine that is complex or confusing? How could you simplify it?
c) Think of a domain that interests you: shopping, elementary education, exercise, social media, etc. What possibilities are there to do something new or better? What might be redesigned for newer or different technologies like smart phones or gaming platforms?
2) Narrow your choices down to the best 2 or three ideas.

Pick Your Idea and Begin to Think About Your Potential Users
1) Submit your idea to your professor for approval.
2) Format your submission using the following sections:
a) The Problem
b) Why It’s Interesting
c) Main Users Affected
d) Current Solutions
e) Shortcomings and Strengths of Current Solutions
f) Main Goals of Your Project

Case Analysis 1 – Apple Computer: Research how Apple managed to reinvent itself over the years. Answer the following questions:

1. What were some of Apple’s biggest successes and failures? Describe why.
2. How much of Apple’s success can be linked directly back to its culture? Why?
3. How do the actions of Apple apply to the TCOs?

Your Case should be 2-3 pages, double-spaced, have APA references, and typed in an easy-to-read font in MS Word (other word processors are fine to use but save it in MS Word format). At the top right-hand corner of your paper, please include your full name, the case name, our course number (NETW583), and the date.

Individual Visual Logic – Array Manipulation

Select a task a program could perform over an array of items that would be useful.

Your task must include the following: 

• A useful array
• Populating the array
• Processing the items in the array
• Outputting the results of the processing (This may or may not include displaying the entire array.)

You can build this on your effort in a previous week or tackle a new challenge.

Obtain approval from your instructor for your chosen task.  Send a Private Message to your instructor. 

Create a Word document. The document should contain:

• a brief description of the task
• the pseudocode associated with the task 

Create a Visual Logic file to execute the task.

Learning Team Instructions Final Learning Team Paper and Presentation (Preparation)

Option 2: Home Maintenance

Week 4: Learning Team Instructions – Desk Check for Home Maintenance

Continue working on the Week 5 Learning Team assignment.

Test your algorithms with a desk check using the appropriate test values for each variable required by your design. Provide a list of the variables and the values that the variables can hold.

Create a desk check table to show the results of your desk check test.

Continue developing the Visual Logic flowchart of the algorithm, including all modules.

Use this flowchart to check the values given for the desk check.

Begin working on a Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® presentation. Use this presentation to convince senior management that your proposed solution fits their needs and requirements. 

Submit a Word document with a 1- to 2-paragraph Learning Team Status Report that includes what the team accomplished for the week, any issues encountered, and plans for the next week.

Using your assignment #10 program modify it to create an Ordered Linked List based on your structure from your inventory file (order based on the partno).

Add a Inventory Management Class (whatever you want to call it), this class will have methods to load, add to, delete from, find item, and print your Ordered Linked List.

Change your load to just load L) Load Inventory File. While reading from your inventory file call a Inventory Management class method that will add the item into your Ordered Linked List. (remove the printing from the Load – you will also no longer need any pointers outside of your methods or structures meaning no pointers in main).

Add a P) Print Inventory menu option that will call a Inventory Management Class method to print your Ordered Linked List.

Add a F) Find Item in Inventory menu option that will call a Inventory Management Class method to find an item to your Ordered Linked List once found print the part information out (or return it depending on how you write this).

Add a A) Add Item to Inventory menu option that will call a Inventory Management Class method to add an item to your Ordered Linked List.

Add a D) Delete Item from Inventory menu option that will call a Inventory Management Class method to delete an item (based on your part number) to your Ordered Linked List.

Create a Inventory Management Class method to delete all inventory items (to free up all the memory dynamically allocated) call this method just before your program ends.

not required but a challenge, make your add part give an error if the partno already exists and do not add part to your linked list.

not required but a challenge, create option to save your linked list back to a file, in the same format the original file is opened in.

not required but a challenge, create option to replace an existing node items price or description.

You will have to add any needed pointers to your structure, you will need to test this by loading your file, then adding a new part that should fall at the head of the list, add another that should fall in the middle of the list, and add another that should fall at the tail (end) of the list – print your list again after doing this to verify that it works. You will also need to test your find part and make sure that all prints out correctly too.

Assignment Content

1. Phoenix Fine Electronics would like more information about their system options and your recommendation. They are interested in learning how the strengths of the system can be turned into measurable values for the business upon implementation.

   Modify the chart from your Week 2 assignment by adding the following:

   • The strengths and weaknesses of each system
   • The impact of the strength and weakness
   • Cite at least two sources in the additional columns in your chart.

     Write a business case for your recommendation. This business case will be revisited in Week 6. As a guideline, this section of the business case should be approximately 3 to 4 pages in length. Use the information from your executive summary and add the following information:

   • At least three measurable organizational values the new system will bring
   • The benefits of the value to the business
   • How these values will differentiate the business to customers
   • The risks of doing the project
   • The risks of not doing the project
   • The modified comparison chart (from above)
   • References
   • Submit your assignment.