Administration

Education

Where is the need?1. Information exchange within the last decade

2. Educational institutions being left behind

3. Lengthy, repetitive processes left for teachers and

coordinators of schools to deal with

4. Specifically, Subject Selection (year 10s)

5. Currently, manual processes act as the solution

6. Problems relating to manual processes are also

encountered

7. Websites as a solution

Modern businesses are like

babies relying on technology

Current existing solutions

Online solutions(similar to my proposed solution

however improvements need to be

made)

Offline solutions(currently used by St Pauls and

majority of local schools)

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Online solutions

Positive

s

Negatives

Return?

1. Customizability

2. Works on all browsers

3. Simple to use

4. Readability – step-by-step process

5. Functionality

1. Aesthetics ?

2. Lack of multimedia ?

3. Cost ?

4. Effort simply to test ?

Aesthetics

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No images

Important

information

displayed in a

boring chunk of

text

Similar colour

used to split

each section of

information

Are they trying to bore you to death?

Resolution? Add more colour and change the design scheme and

layout

Lack of multimedia

Return?

Once again, they’re clearly trying

to bore you to death but this time

it’s the teachers fault... Right?

No, Teachers are only given the

ability to add text information in

this box which acts as subject

information for students.

Resolution? Give teachers the ability to add multimedia

Cost

Return?

Because you have to pay...

Why SSO?

Even more fees...

Resolution? Don’t be greedy, x5 your market and profit off

advertising

Effort simply to test

Return?

You have to apply to test their

product...

When it could, so simply, be

automatic

Resolution? Create an automatic run-

through or test

Offline solutions

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What am I researching and why?

7 Areas

Current subject

selection at St

Paul’s

Other subject

selection processes

Survey all users of

my system

Websites –

look/aesthetics/layout

Different web

providers

Evaluation/testing

process throughout

How my website

works and looks on

different browsers

Factors affecting my design, development and

success of my design project

1.

Relation between the practices and processes of

designers and producers to my project

2.

Explanation of the influence of trends in society on my

design and its production

3.

How I intend on using creative and innovative

approaches in designing and producing

4.

Topics to be discussed

Factors affecting my design, development and success of my design

project

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Relation between the practices and processes of

designers and producers to my project

Back?

“Simple can be

harder than complex:

You have to work

hard to get your

thinking clean to

make it simple.”

- Steve Jobs -

Co-founder and CEO of apple

Why do we assume that simple is good?

“Because with physical products, we have to

feel we can dominate them. “

“As you bring order to complexity, you find a

way to make the product defer to you.”

Only relevant details

Button icons represent their nature

Short and simple identifiers

Ability to switch between pages of apps

so the size of apps doesn’t have to be

compromised

Explanation of the influence of trends in society

on my design and its production

Back?

Teen Internet Usage

93% of teenagers go online

69% of teenagers have their own computer

63% of teenagers internet users go online every day

27% of teenagers use their phone to get online

24% of teenagers with a game console use it to go online

What is he looking at? Must be interesting!

4chan – image-based

bulletin board where

anyone can post

comments and share

images

HEAVILY DIRECTED

TOWARDS TEENAGERSClick HERE to see how

Web usage as a trend

First thing to see, the

largest header which

introduces the user to

the website

Small blocks of

information

Relevant titles with

information specific to

that topic... Quick to

navigate!

Red used in the

header which then

leads your eye to the

websites summarised

purpose

Large titles

Use of different

colours and boxes to

separate topics and

information

Uploaded images

which can be viewed

and commented on

How are they targeting you?

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Are they targeting you?Design can reveal the target market

Teenagers Adults

1. Large headings

2. Interactivity (Clicking, Uploading, Watching)

3. Multimedia used to reduce text and large

paragraphs

4. Likely to leave websites with poor presentation

regardless of useful content

1. Small, grouped information

2. Informative information (News, Reports)

3. More tolerant of a heavier text-to-images ratio

4. Willing to stick around and look at the

information before the multimedia and eye

candy

Facts and information found in a study recently completed by Jakob Nielson

“Usability: Teenagers get bored

quickly and frustrated easily online”

Back?

How I intend on using creative and innovative

approaches in designing and producing

Simplicity- What does this mean?

Sophistication:

Developed to a high degree of complexity.

Simplicity:

Easily understood or done; presenting no difficulty

How do I intend

on using

simplicity in my

design?

Back?

Creating simplicity in my design

How can Simplicity be

brought to my design?Pictures

Videos

Icons HeadersColours

Spacing and separationSymbols

Rhetoric

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Presenting my final MDP

Laptop website displayPortfolio besides laptop

Reviews from teachers on my systemMy Portfolio will be

placed on the left of the

laptop and reviews will

be on the right