Thursday, October 9, 2008

What we need

Hi guys...


here's what i have find out about design document .....
first 2 things i think we had it....the storyboard i did for each presentation...
so Q is ....any update on storyboard i should do?!
another Q is....anything else we could add...???

so far i will be doing the web research of social networking


Design Document!--------

1. Intro

2. Storyboard- documents all the technology and design for our project- 10 pg?!
-------------storyboard
-------------technology report on each page --- write it next to graph....?!

3. A flow chart of the navigational pathway- 2 page will do!?

4. resource

5. content review
system design
user interface design
non-functionali requirements like performance..
languages ..etc


6. Research/reflection on social networking...6-8 pages?!!----BIG DEAL FOR ME AND JUAN



7. prototype- could be a non working one...just a tour ....use html...flash....director...anything....BIG FOR ZUN

8. evaluation and testing methodologies

testing and evluation procedures
and how they will be implemented..

9. Conclusion


I guess its a pretty nice plan...Normally the design docs, min is 40 pages...
is 20 pages enough though???....thats a lot!

we got really good mark for the project plan! NICE 9/10!!!....its sad its only 10 %

2 comments:

xsight said...

it looks like a good plan... it depends on juan on what topics he would cover for content... so i guess we dont worry on page numbers and concentrate on content topics... If u want to create a flash video for a demo based on the sketches we did, that would be great... thanks jo... -zun

A Dekker said...

Hi,

Looks like a good start to the structure, I would suggest:

- Adding in a requirements section between Intro and Storyboard
- This includes *who are your users*
- Something like a few personas may help this
- What are the goals of the users
- Have a quick look back at the interaction design lectures (http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~comp3503/), there are a lot of techniques which could be used here
- The point of this section is to clearly identify what the system has to accomplish

- Research section may be better off straight after the requirements section
- This would be like saying "based on the requirements we found, we researched these different things"
- Then, reflection can go after evaluation / testing, so you can reflect on what you found during the evaluation (in academic writing this is often called discussion)
- Research should include the current system, what does it do well, what could be done better.
- Again, having a look back at the interaction design slides might make this easier (http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~comp3503/)

So my suggestion for structure would be
Title page / executive summary
Table of contents
1. Intro
2. User requirements
3. Research
4. Design
4.1 Storyboard
4.2 Flowchart
4.3 Resources
4.4 Content Review
5. Prototype/Implementation
6. Evaluation
7. Reflection/Discussion
8. Conclusion
References
Appendacies

Hope that helps, gimme a yell if you need any more information.

cheers
Dekker