Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Characteristics of Standard
application software and
application areas
- standard
application/generic
software
- word processor
- letters and
reports
- allows the entry, editing and formatting of tex
- business or
personal
documents
- WYSIWYG
- desktop publisher
- allows
combination
of text and
images
- flyers, brochures, posters
- emphasis on the graphical element
- spreadsheets
- create
mathematical
and financial
models
- automatic recalculation
- perform
complex
functions
- database
- enable the user to handle data
- sorting and
searching
- web authoring
- creation of web pages
- some technical
ability is needed
where it isn't on
other standard
applications
- most aimed at
general users
- produce the exact wanted outcome
- WYSIWYG
- presentation
- produce presentations for show or print
- can run with or
without user
intervention
- Characteristics and use of systems
- personnel systems
- store information on
people/employees
- information
stored is
confidential
- enable updates and
sort/searching the system
- be able to link to other
systems
- Stock control
- know when items are
in stock and how much
is ordered
- list of items and suppliers
- have manual overide
- invoicing
- shows products and prices
- generate the invoices
- flag outstanding
payments
- booking systems
- requires and event person and time
- allow user to select
times and events ect
- allows tailoring
to users needs
- timetabling
- enter data to
find a match
- many options that
can be changed to
effect the outcome
- monitor the status of
travel in progress
- route finding
- plot a route
between two
points that a
user enters
- specify locations
- find different types of route
- training systems
- impart
knowlwedge
and skills about
a secific task
- self paced by the user
- provide questions
and answers at the
users level
- feedback
- purpose of characteristics
of application systems
- wizards
- allows user to
perfomr
complex actions
- outcome is generic
- help inexperienced users
- style sheets
- similar to templates that set
text styles to be used
- conform to pre determined style
- someone
must develop
the style first
- can be restrictive and not meet
the nedds of the user
- templates
- determine the baisic
structure and set out of
the document
- templates are selected automatically and changed by the user
- change colours and
text styles also
- macros
- set of stored commands
that can be replayed
- used to repeat regular tasks
- run by pressing
the assigned key
- help
inexperienced
users
- can go wrong
- design considerations for
tailored entry screens
- considerations for forms
- consistency, if there is several
pages of forms then the user can
know they are the same form and
are related
- relevance, should not
ask for redundant data
- supportiveness,
balance of how much
info is given to the user
- visual and audio cues,
feedback to confirm user
action is correct or not
- intuitiveness, design so the
user can remember what they
have done if they have used
the system before
- customising applications
- buttons, used to run
macros or take
users to another
page
- forms, assist in data entry
- design considerations
- consistent layout/
house style
- font stylr and size
- colours
- error messages
- flow of information
- validation
- on screen help
- house style
- recognition by clients
and customers
- predefines, colours/ font
style and size
- consistency between all
company documents
- master documents
- master slides
- templates
- style sheets
- styles