Project 2 - Background

Project 2:Weather Station

Project 2 is a group project. In this project, two people teamed up and combined their user requirement specifications from project 1. My group member is Mr Dai Fang.

Aims:
Project 2 goal is to implement the knowledge of JSP programming to develop the weather website as specified in the combined user requirement. The project also focuses on group design process and user-centered approach of website development.

Artefacts produced by this project are:

  • Weather website
  • User testing and analysis
  • Final report

Group process and work allocation:

 Phase 1

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Combination of requirements

Hanif & Dai

 

 

 

Page layout

 

Hanif

 

 

Methods page development

 

Dai

 

 

Main page layout and lamb method development

 

 

Hanif

 

Search methods and result page layout development

 

 

Dai

 

Combined work and alpha testing

 

 

 

Hanif & Dai


Phase 2 

Week 8

Week 9

Week 10

Methods refinement

Dai

 

 

Layout refinement

Hanif

 

 

User testing plan development

Dai & Hanif

 

 

Run user testing

 

Hanif

 

Analyse user testing data

 

Hanif

 

Final report writing

 

Hanif & Dai

 

Final presentation

 

 

Hanif & Dai

It is best to describe Mr Dai Fang's user specification and design to understand this project. Mr Dai Fang designed his website for people who plan to come and stay in Ipswich.

The website main focuses is functionality. It provides current weather information in a simple tabular form, mainly textual.

The website main focuses is functionality. It provides a sophisticated search function of historical weather information.

The search functions are very flexible and allow users to customize the type of statistical information to be obtained from the database.

 

 
 

 

 

Studio 2

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