NIGW

NIGW

1. Impacts

   • Social
     • People can bond and express their interest in different pets from the game.
     • There can be social functions that can be held about different pets from the game, this way all types of people can share their knowledge about their favourite pets.
   • Personal
     • The application can allow users to be able to learn about pets from the game to develop their own personal knowledge.
     • The information that users can learn from the application could inspire them to develop new creative hobbies.
   • Economic
     • Developers can be hired to maintain and improve the application and introduce advertisements to earn revenue for the application.
     • A premium version of the web application could be created that would be a subscription that users would pay monthly.

2. Developer Problem

   • User Interface
     • Features
       • Previous Page button
       • Search Bar
     • Usability Principles
       • Saftey
         • Safety is when a website can protect users from making errors on the application, it is also how well a user can recover from error (MTU, 2023). For the SAP application, ensuring that each SAP are displayed with sections to prevent users from clicking the wrong animal or food.
       • Utility
         • Utility is providing necessary functions and features of an application that the user needs (Komnios, 2021). For the SAP application, users should be able to search and browse for different tiers of animals and their statistics.
       • Learnability
         • Learnability is how easy is the application can be used for a first-time user (Joyce, 2019). For the SAP application, this could mean placing elements of the application in obvious spaces that the user can use and having instructions on the website, such as a previous page button on the top left of the page.
       • Effectiveness
         • Effectiveness is how well an application can provide required functions to the user (IDF, n.d). For the SAP application, effectiveness could be how quickly a user can access something that they need from the application, like quickly accessing an animal’s level 1 ability.
       • Accessibility
         • Accessibility is how wide of a variety of users can use the application effectively and easily (WAI, 2023). For the SAP application, there could be a high contrast mode for people with visual impairment.
     • User Interface Components
       • Buttons
       • Images
   • Coding Environment
     • Developer Tools
       • Thonny
       • SQLite
       • Sublime Text
     • Key Algorithms
       • Search
       • Browse
       • Filter
   • Data
     • Required Data
       • Super Auto Pets Data Set
         • Pros
           • The Data set is normalized in the first normal form
         • Cons
           • There is unncecary information such as unicode
         • Sample Data
           • ID
             • ANT
           • Ability 1
             • Faint
               • Give a random friend +1
     • Data Storage and Retrieval
       • SQLite Database

3. Task Requirements

   • Contraints and Limitations
     • Time
     • Coding Environment
     • Skill
   • Existing Solutions
     • Solution 1
       • Pros
         • Simplistic user interface that displays the animals and food
         • When on the information page for an animal, all its information including statistics and abilities are displayed
         • There are lots of images to aid the user to navigate the website which incorporates the usability principal learnability
       • Cons
         • There are no obvious back buttons to go on the previous page, this can cause some confusion to the user as it is more difficult to navigate back to the home page.
     • Solution 2
       • Pros
         • Each animal and food are nicely sectioned, this allows the user to easily select an animal that they want to see
       • Cons
         • The images displayed on the website are quite small and hard to see for the visually impaired
         • The information listed for the animals and food are not aesthetic as it is just text.
   • Prescribed Critera
     • PC1: The web application must use a minimum of one external data source
       • The external data source must be a Comma-separated values (csv) or Database Files (db)
       • The external data source must be run by a SQL application
       • The web application must access the SAP information from the external data source
     • PC2: The web application must display the data from a minimum of one external data source
       • The web application must retrieve SAP data from the external data source
       • The web application must display SAP data to the user taken from the external data source
     • PC3: The web application must incorporate the use of Usability Principles
       • The web application must be able to refresh.
       • The web application must allow the user to search for different SAP animals and their statistics
       • The web application must allow feature buttons that the user can easily remember to allow them to navigate the application easier
       • The web application must have clear sections to allow the user to make mistakes without consequences
       • The web application must feature a search bar to allow the users to quickly search for SAP animals and food
   • Self-Determined Critera
     • SDC1: The Web application must be user friendly
       • The colour scheme of the website must be suitable for the SAP theme
       • The web application must feature images
     • SDC2: The Web application allows the user to be able to view all the pet’s data at the same time
       • The web application must have adequate spacing that allows a pet’s data to be viewed at the same time without zooming out

4. User Problem

   • User Persona
     • User Persona 1
       • Wants
         • To be better at Super Auto Pets (SAP)
       • Needs
         • An easy to use platform that shows statistics of Super Auto Pet animals
       • Details
         • Wants to be able to search SAP animals by name because I always forget what their Level 2 and 3 abilities are. So, they need quick information during a competitive SAP game
     • User Persona 2
       • Wants
         • To be better at SAP
       • Needs
         • An easy-to-use platform that shows SAP information
       • Details
         • Wants an aesthetically pleasing SAP website that shows all toys or food data in an easy-to-read manner that will display well on my Desktop Computer screen while they play SAP on my phone.