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Research on Financial Web Sites Designed for Teenagers (Fall 2001) IPRO 359
Title
Research on Financial Web Sites Designed for Teenagers (Fall 2001) IPRO 359
Creator
Paniagua, Elizabeth, Fong, Eric, Lee, Jeanie, Kim, Eunjoo, Noh, Hajeong, Tomov, Asian
Date
2001, 2001-12
Description
The proliferation of the Internet in recent years has led to more people using, and being confused by, computer interfaces. Usability testing...
Show moreThe proliferation of the Internet in recent years has led to more people using, and being confused by, computer interfaces. Usability testing is a formal laboratory procedure used to identify problems with user interfaces during the development of a product. It involves creating tasks for users to accomplish and watching whether they can complete the given tasks. More importantly, the testers observe how users interact with the interface in an attempt to understand why they perform the actions they do. The testing allows developers to identify issues with their designs early enough in the product development cycle to be able to change them, saving money and resources later, in addition to creating an easier-to-use product. Unfortunately, many companies do not implement usability testing or do so too late into development to make any substantive changes suggested by the testing. The result is often a product that is needlessly hard to use. The team will conduct usability tests during the semester to gain first-hand experience in all aspects of usability testing. This project will test the interfaces of products produced by other IPROs and will work closely with other teams to identify and address issues arising from their work so that students on this team and others can appreciate the value of usability testing and designing with the end users in mind. A major focus of the team's work during the Fall 2001 semester will be to develop a business plan for the IIT Usability Testing and Evaluation Center (UTEC), and in particular to develop a marketing strategy for establishing UTEC as the Underwriter's Laboratory of the internet, whereby a web site authorized by UTEC to display the (UTEC) seal of approval will hold the distinction of having met minimum standards of usability for its intended user populations.
Sponsorship: NA
Project Plan for IPRO 359: Research on Financial Web Sites Designed for Teenagers for the Fall 2001 semester
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Design of Web Site Enhancements to Serve Targeted Industrial End User Segments (Spring 2001) IPRO 314: Design of Web Site Enhancements to Serve Targeted Industrial End User Segments IPRO314 Spring2001 Final Presentation
Title
Design of Web Site Enhancements to Serve Targeted Industrial End User Segments (Spring 2001) IPRO 314: Design of Web Site Enhancements to Serve Targeted Industrial End User Segments IPRO314 Spring2001 Final Presentation
Creator
Bondi, Giovanni, Singh, Raunaq, Kim, Eunjoo, Valkovich, Ksenia, Munshi, Arif, Kakar, Imtiaz
Date
2001, 2001-05
Description
The goal of this IPRO project is to continue the development of a web site begun with a Spring 2000 IPRO team for General Motors Electro...
Show moreThe goal of this IPRO project is to continue the development of a web site begun with a Spring 2000 IPRO team for General Motors Electro-Motive Division, a world-class supplier of medium-speed diesel engines for locomotive, power generation, marine propulsion, and land/offshore drilling applications in more than seventy-five countries. The purpose of this project is to enhance the corporate web site to support users with different security levels (public pages, customer restricted pages, company restricted pages) and to support pages that have information specific to each customer as user. The following tasks are to be addressed as part of this project: (1) define the technical requirements necessary to support a multi-level user access site and a configurable "my page" site; (2) define the structure and process required to manage and update online documentation to accommodate information specific to the end user; (3) define the structure and process required to issue and manage user IDs; (4) design a web page that can be customized by the end user based on the information the end user is interested in; and (5) provide a functional website framework that incorporates the objectives listed above. At the conclusion of the project the team will provide (a) a technical requirements document, (b) a process flow chart for managing user-specific updates and user IDs, and (c) a functional web site framework that supports several layers of information protection.
Sponsorship: GM-EMD
Project Plan for IPRO 314: Design of Web Site Enhancements to Serve Targeted Industrial End User Segments for the Spring 2001 semester
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