Digital Innovation

Digital Innovation

1. The user problem

   • Brad
     • Has a hearing impairment
       • Brad uses lipreading as a technique to understand people talking to him
         • Needs to see people face to face
       • Appreciates people try to use sign language
   • Jess
     • Has Tourettes Syndrome
       • Makes many unintentional errors due to Tourettes syndrom and would need undo features to create accuracy
       • Loves interacting with people
   • Cameron
     • Is blind
       • Needs a webpage that has a voice assistant to hear what is on the screen.
       • Would want accessibility features equivalent or better than office 365 accesbility features
       • would need technology that assists in scanning labels and reading them out loud

2. Developer problem

   • Developing a website to enable an individual with a disability to access information relevant to their disability

3. Algorithms

   • Use perpective
     • #An algorithm to find government service locations OUTPUT ‘Search Keywords?’ INPUT user inputs search keywords (post code or government service location name) Search companion card and government service location for postcode Return companion card name and government service location name Output companion card name and government service location name
       • Indentation in document
   • Computer
     • #An algorithm to find government service locations OUTPUT ‘Search Keywords?’ INPUT user inputs search keywords (post code or government service location name) Search companion card and government service location for postcode Return companion card name and government service location name Output companion card name and government service location name
       • Indentation in document

4. Interrealationships between user experiences and data in the digital solution

5. Functional components

   • User interface
     • html template: Zaria's webpage
   • Data interface
     • Companion card data
     • Government service locations data
   • Coding environments
     • Flask Web
     • sqlite3 database

6. Non-functional components

   • Usability Principles
     • Accessibility : features that cater to people with hearing impairments (e.g. sing- language interpreter
     • Learnability: Features that relate to the real world for easy understanding
     • Safety: features for that reassure and help users (e.g. exit buttons and undo buttons).
     • Effectiveness: The use of drop down menus
     • Utility: Tables being displayed on the web page
   • Legal Requirements
     • Permission from locations for their data
   • Impacts
     • Social
       • Increased efficiencies on a societal level
     • Personal
       • Reduced expenditure on finding information
       • Overall better mental health and well being
     • Economic- Increase in welfare due to the increase in information availability , increased efficiency in delivering information
   • Economic requirements
   • UX (User experience)