IA1 Mind Map

IA1 Mind Map

1. task requirements

   • constraints & limitations
     • time
       • 8 weeks (due wk 8)
     • skills
       • lack the required coding skills / knowledge
     • coding environment
       • at home cant ask for help from teacher
       • can only get help from teacher at school
   • prescribed criteria
     • self determined criteria
       • SDC1. Web application displays all character information for female characters in the Barbie verse, and allows to search or filter data.
         • Requirement 1: web app displays all female characters data
         • Requirement 2: data from the Barbie verse
         • Requirement 3: allows you to search for characters name
         • Requirement 4: allows you to filter data to specify character based on the number of movies the characters been in, character number, character name, Barbie cast, skin tone, eyes, hair, gender, race, speaking voice, and singing voice
     • PC1.
       • PC1. Web application displays Barbie Data from an external data source
         • Requirement 1: web app displays Barbie Data
         • Requirement 2: data from an external source
     • PC2.
       • PC2. Web application allows a user to search the Barbie data
         • Requirement 1: user can search and filter
         • Requirement 2: displays the searched data entered by the user
         • Requirement 3: displays the filtered data the user filters
   • existing solutions
     • wikipedia for specific movie
       • plus
         • Has a character description
         • Characters are sorted alphabetically from a-z
       • minus
         • Only shows characters from this specific movie
         • No search bar
         • No filter
         • Displays a lot of information and characters without any tool too make navigation easier
     • character wiki
       • plus
         • Sorted in alphabetical order from a-z
         • search bar
         • Displays images of character
       • minus
         • Data can’t be filtered
         • All data is displayed so can be difficult to navigate and find character

2. developer problem

   • user interface
     • features
     • usability principles
       • safety
         • Safety is making the user interface so that crucial mistakes cant happen, and if they do happen its possible to recover.
       • learnability
         • easy to learn, using familiar controls like wasd or right click to shoot for example
       • accessibility
       • effectiveness
       • utility
     • user interface components
       • buttons
       • drop down menus
       • links
       • search bar
       • filter
   • coding environment
     • key algorithm
     • development tools
       • thonny
       • SQLite
       • flask
   • data
     • data storage and retrieval
       • SQLite database
     • create table statement used
     • required data

3. impacts

   • social
   • personal
   • economic
     • not too complex
       • wont have to hire a coder and can save 80k from salary

4. user problem

   • user persona
     • user persona 1
       • needs
         • a web app that displays only female barbie verse characters, and he can search for a character name or he can filter based on a specific category
       • details
         • Miguelito, 42, Brisbane
       • wants
         • learn about female barbie verse characters without watching any of the movies

5. data sets

   • barbie data sets
     • barbie careers
       • plus
         • easy to normalise and clean
         • easy to make data dictionary
       • minus
         • not much data to make a web app off
         • same data types for some of the barbies (same type, career)
         • hard to think of ideas of a web app for this
         • doesnt meet sdc or user persona
     • barbie nodes
       • +
         • easy to normalise and clean
         • easy to make data dictionary
       • minus
         • not much data to work with
         • hard to think of ideas for a web app
         • doesnt meet sdc, and user persona
     • barbieverse characters
       • +
         • meets sdc and user persona requirements
         • easy to think of ideas of a web app
         • lots of data to work with
       • minus
         • lots of data to normalise and clean
         • harder to make data dictionary