The focus on usability and system design is the main area that need to be explored and documented through-out my dissertation. I now have a some references which Andrew has given me to go away and research in more depth. These are as Follows:
- Rocket surgery made easy (Steve Krug)
- simple and useable (Giles Colbourne)
- Undercover user design(bowels box)
- Jakob Nielson (Usability Consultant)
I will follow up this week by doing some more research into jakob nelsons work as he has done years of research into Usability for systems. This will be a good point of reference for me to find out better ways of analysing my system to make it user friendly and thoughtful for the user it is intended for.
Targets for this week:
- More Research into Jakob Nielson and his work
- Look into Responsive web design
- Recap on PHP ready to code the system
- Arrange a meeting with research candidates
Area's of consern:
Whilst speaking to andrew in more depth about my system the issue came up about suspending jobs if they can't be completed. If the Technician has to move onto another job he will need to suspend the time on his current job and move onto the next one. This causes a problem with coding and some thought will need to go into resolving this issue in order to calculate the true time taken for the job to be completed.
After speaking about Usability and Design alot more thought and consideration will need to be applied for the Technician front end system. This is an issue as are not all computer literate and probably don't want/ care for a system to be in place. I will ensure that this is very well thought through and come up with several designs to take to my research groups in order for them to decide of which they think is a good idea to implement.
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