Web Application

Web Application

1. Impacts

   • social
     • can create a community through shared interest
   • economical
     • Can be marketed
   • personal
     • can learn information

2. Task requirements

   • Prescribed criteria 1
     • Web application displays Barbie Data from an external data source
       • External data is relevant to the web application
       • Web application contains either Barbie Doll Careers data or Barbie Cinematography Universe Data
   • Prescribed criteria 2
     • Web application allows a user to search the Barbie data
       • Users are able to search by using keywords
       • Users are able to search with a filter
   • Self-prescribed criteria 1
     • Web application is organised and looks good
       • The application design has a fitting theme for Barbie
       • -Data displayed can be easily navigable
       • The users can visually see what the movie looks like and what the characters look like
   • Constraints & limitations
     • coding environment
       • time
         • 7 weeks
         • lesson time
         • home time
     • coding
       • HTML
       • CSS
       • SQL
       • Python
     • skills
       • mock up
       • pseudocode
       • DFD
   • existing solutions
     • Barbie Wiki
       • cons
         • Ads clutters the website and can be a distraction for the users
       • pros
         • Provides easy navigation through the contents table
     • IMDb
       • pros
         • Synopsis of the movie is included to allow the users to quickly understand the content of the movie
       • cons
         • Less focused on Barbie, which can make it difficult for users looking for specific Barbie related content
   • data sets
     • Barbieverse characters
       • limitations
         • excessive information such as eye colour, skin tone, race, ect.
       • strength
         • relevant information on Barbie cinematic universe and characters
       • Interesting characteristic is that it shows singers name
     • Barbie careers
       • limitations
         • irrelevant for the user wanting movies and characters information
       • strength
         • each career type is listed by year
       • it is interesting to see all the different career
     • Barbie names
       • strength
         • provides names of characters
       • limitations
         • does not have names of all characters in Barbie cinematic world
         • too little information provided
       • unexpected characteristics
         • surname column does not contain data of surnames and provides first names instead

3. user problem

   • user persona
     • details
       • 67 years old
       • retiree
       • went to university
     • wants
       • to connect with her granddaughter over Barbie movies and characters
     • needs
       • app that shows movies and characters is simple

4. developer problem

   • User interface
     • usability principles
       • utility
         • The ability of the system to provide all the functionality that users need, it also measures how satisfactory the person feels about a particular application
       • effectiveness
         • The ability of users to use the system to do the work they need to do, the system is constant and dependable
       • accessibility
         • The ability of a product to be used by many different people, including those with disabilities
       • learnability
         • How easy it is to learn
       • safety
         • The ability for users to make errors and recover from those mistake
     • features
       • language
       • dark mode
     • user interface components
       • buttons
       • images
       • links
   • coding environment
     • Notepad++
     • Thonny
     • Sqlite
   • data
     • data storage and retrieval
       • SQLite database
     • required data
       • name
       • data type
       • data length
       • constraints