Introduction What is the design scenario? What is the User Interface

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Introduction
Design brief: A document presenting user and product research together with design drafts, testing, and final user
interface designs for a product.
This semester you will work in teams to develop a User Interface Design Brief addressing a particular design
scenario from an industry client. The design brief is worth 70% of your mark overall, and is submitted in three stages. Your finished design brief will document your progress analysing the design scenario, the people who will need to interact with your design, and the development of the designs themselves. In the future, this will help you demonstrate your User Interface Design understanding and skills, not just to the
teaching team, but also to potential employers.
What is the design scenario?
For this assessment, you will be undertaking a design process for a real client who has a real design request for
you to address.
Your client is the Fraud and Cyber Crime Unit within the Queensland Police Service.
Your client has developed the “Fiscal the Fraud Fighting Ferret Cyber Safety Program”. This program aims to encourage school children to accept the responsibility of being “Fiscal’s Deputy”; to learn about cyber safety, online threats and responsible online behaviour, and
to share this information with their family
The program has completed a very successful pilot phase, where 7 schools around Queensland were chosen to participate and be one of the first to experience this innovative program. The program, which will be coordinated by local School Based Police Officers or local Crime Prevention
Coordinators, will comprise visual presentations and fun interactive, take home educational activity sheets.
A key message of Fiscal is digital respect, to be appropriate and display respectful online behaviours. Fiscal recognises the dangers and damage caused by behaviours such as cyber bullying, and believes that by recruiting our youth to be informed and responsible digital citizens, we can reduce the
incidence of cyber bullying.
Whilst many programs seek to educate adults, Fiscal seeks to educate the children, empowering them to
become the educator and protector of their families. It is envisaged this will help foster a cyber­safe culture from the ground up.
The Fraud and Cyber Crime Unit is in discussion with Samsung regarding the pre­installation of an app on all their
mobile computer devices. The audience for this app is both children and adults, and the app should present “Fiscal’s five tips to help
protect your identity” (http://fiscalthefraudfightingferret.com.au/5­tips­to­help­protect­your­identity/).
You are tasked with developing a user interface design for this app. The Fraud and Cyber Crime Unit require that your design uses the existing characters, including the artwork as
provided. Samples of the artwork for the characters will be provided.
What is the User Interface Design Brief?
The User Interface Design Brief is a document that details your work and findings, as you address the design scenario and design a solution for the client. A template for the design brief has been provided for you in the attached file above.
The template that we have provided is a combination of the kinds of information and design work that you would
include in an industry document, and additional material that we need to see as instructors to understand why you have made your choices in your
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design. You need to work on the design brief as a team in order to ensure that your material is coherent and consistent. We recommend setting your template up in Google Docs, or a similar tool, to allow you to work together on the
document. You will need to export this to a word document or pdf in order to submit it to the course site. You are welcome to invite your assessor to your Google document as well when you submit each stage.
What are the stages of the User Interface Design Brief?
You will submit your design brief as a team in 3 stages, supported by a description of the work you have completed individually with each stage. These stages represent the three main stages that you work through in User Interface Design:
Research,
Design, and
Testing
How do I form a team?
You will need to form a team of no more than four people, and work with people from your workshop group. You will have the chance to form a group in your first workshop, and your assessor can set your group up on the
course site.
Task allocation and time sheets
At the front of your design brief, you will see a table for recording work in the document. At the beginning of each stage, allocate specific tasks to each individual in the team and record these tasks in
the table. Each individual is then responsible for recording the completion of their work in this table. This is an example:
Date
Version
Author
Addition/Alteration
12/03/15
0.1
John Smith
Assigned section nn Jane Doe
Assigned section nn 20/03/15
0.2
Jane Doe
Completed section nn Edited section nn 21/03/15
0.3
Jane Doe
Added section nn Each member of the team should also be keeping an individual timesheet, which is stored in their ePortfolio:
Date
Time spent
Task
Comments
20/03/15
1 hr 20
Research on user needs
Need to look at colours for children
40 mins
Writing – section nn
Based on user research
15 mins
Editing – section nn
Reviewed John Smith’s section and
fixed grammar
21/03/15
1 hr 45
Added – section nn
Developed a new section in Brief to
describe <xyz>
Stage One
Stage One focuses on the work for user research and problem definition. For this stage, you need to identify who your audience is for this product, and conduct research into their needs
and requirements. You need to identify the key aspects of your audience that may influence your design decisions. This research and analysis is then presented within your User Interface Design Brief.
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You will need to complete sections 1 – 5 of the Brief for your Stage One submission.
When and how do I submit my User Interface Design Brief?
You will nominate one person on your team to be responsible for submitting your design brief.
Stage One is due in week 5 on Thursday, 2 April, 2015.
You will submit your design brief online through the assessment link on the course site.
How will you assess my User Interface Design Brief?
Stage One of your submission of your User Interface Design Brief is worth 20%
You will be marked based on your ability to research and analyse your audience for this project. You will receive feedback on Stage One after your submission, and you will need to revise based on this
feedback. Detailed marking criteria for your design brief has been provided in the attached files above.
While your work will be conducted as a team, there is provision for individual weighting in the marking. Each design brief will receive an overall team mark. In teams where all members contribute equally, all team
members will receive the same mark. In teams where some team members are contributing very good work, a positive individual weighting will be
applied to the team mark, resulting in a higher mark for those individuals. Likewise, team members who contribute work of a low quality will have a negative individual weighting applied to
the team mark, resulting in a lower mark for those individuals. Team members who do not contribute to a stage will receive a mark of 0 for that stage.
The task allocation table and the work you record in your individual ePortfolio will support marking of the major
assessment submissions.
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