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2. CIS 524 Entire Course For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com CIS 524 Week 2 Case Study 1 User Interfaces CIS 524 Week 3 Assignment 1 Accessibility CIS 524 Week 4 Case Study 2 Design Process CIS 524 Week 6 Assignment 2 Menu Selection CIS 524 Week 7 Case Study 3 Security

3. CIS 524 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com CIS 524 Week 1 Discussion 1 Creating an Interface For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Week 1 Discussion 1 "Creating an Interface” Please respond to the following: · Imagine you are managing a design project that will create an interface for automobile mechanics. The interface would be used by the mechanics to look up various fixes and parts for any number of makes or models of automobiles that may come through their garage. Decide what usability measures would be most motivating when designing this interface and describe the unique challenges you would have to plan for when designing an interface for an automotive repair shop. Use supporting evidence to support your response.

4. CIS 524 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com CIS 524 Week 1 Discussion 2 Goal Setting For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Week 1 Discussion 2 Early computers were only usable by experts with strong technical knowledge. Examine how interactive systems have changed throughout the years to accommodate average users and describe two advantages and two disadvantages associated with these changes. From the e-Activity, examine the two articles you selected on universal usability and discuss one topic of interest that was addressed.

5. CIS 524 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com CIS 524 Week 2 Case Study 1 User Interfaces For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Case Study 1: User Interfaces Due Week 2 and worth 90 points Early user interfaces were designed with little or no consideration for the end user. This was largely due to technical and hardware limitations. The poor interface design required a specific skill set for users and limited the mass appeal of computers. Modern interfaces are much more user friendly. Theo Mandel wrote about the five (5) golden rules of interface design. Read Mandel’s article located athttp://www.theomandel.com/docs/Mandel-GoldenRules.pdf.

6. CIS 524 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com CIS 524 Week 2 Discussion 1 Interface Design Guidelines For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Week 2 Discussion 1 "Interface Design Guidelines" Please respond to the following: Imagine you are leading a team of designers for a new software product. During the kickoff meeting, the team starts to discuss design guidelines. About half of the team complains that guidelines can be too specific, incomplete, hard to apply, and sometimes wrong. The other half feels that building on experience from design leaders contributes to steady improvements. Take a stance on this debate and support your position. Then discuss how you would solve this conflict to get your meeting back on track.

7. CIS 524 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com CIS 524 Week 2 Discussion 2 HCI Theories For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com "HCI Theories" Please respond to the following: Imagine you are the manager of a medium-sized IT department. While walking through the hall one day, you overhear a senior-level software developer telling a newly hired developer to focus on improving his coding skills rather than learning about theories related to human- computer interaction. Take a position on whether you agree or disagree with the senior software developer. Support your decision.

8. CIS 524 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com CIS 524 Week 3 Assignment 1 Accessibility For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Assignment 1: Accessibility Due Week 3 and worth 80 points Building a user interface that meets the needs of a diverse population can be incredibly difficult. Research the best practices for developing a universally usable interface, as well as some of the federal legislation that applies (i.e., section 508).

9. CIS 524 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com CIS 524 Week 3 Discussion 1 Electronic Ballots For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com "Electronic Ballots" Please respond to the following: One criticism of electronic ballots for elections is that while intuitive for younger voters who are familiar with using a mouse to point and click, elderly voters and motor-impaired users will have difficulty controlling a mouse. Discuss how you would correct this issue so that every demographic would have an equal opportunity to vote. Support your answer.

10. CIS 524 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com CIS 524 Week 3 Discussion 2 Interface Design Models For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com "Interface Design Models" Please respond to the following: Evaluate interface design models and describe design issues across human-computer interaction environments associated with these models. Support your response. Building an interface can be broken down into the phases of design and development. Analyze the activities that take place in both phases, and explain why certain activities should be included in design but not in development.

11. CIS 524 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com CIS 524 Week 4 Case Study 2 Design Process For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Case Study 2: Design Process Due Week 4 and worth 90 points You have recently started your own software design company. You discover that your local DMV is looking to build a system that will allow receptionists to check customers in quickly. They would like for the system to allow customers to self- check-in during busy times, but have receptionists check customers in the rest of the time. Your company puts a bid in for the project and wins. Read the article located athttp://www.bcs.org/upload/pdf/ewic_hc07_lppaper18.pdf.

12. CIS 524 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com CIS 524 Week 4 Discussion 1 Direct Manipulation and Virtual Environments For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com "Direct Manipulation and Virtual Environments" Please respond to the following: Your software development company has been contracted to build a tool that will manage user accounts and rights in an Active Directory environment. One of your developers tells you that he wants the tool to make use of direct manipulation. A second developer argues that a command line structure would be a better and more secure approach. Take a stand on this argument, providing at least three positives of each approach, and then make a decision for this project and support it.

13. CIS 524 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com CIS 524 Week 4 Discussion 2 Menu Selection and Organization For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com "Menu Selection and Organization" Please respond to the following: Describe the considerations that you would take into account when selecting the menu style for an application and why. Support your response with examples.

14. CIS 524 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com CIS 524 Week 5 Discussion 1 Command and Natural Language For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com "Command and Natural Language" Please respond to the following: The president of your company approached you with his iPhone in one hand and his iPad in the other. He has just purchased the iPhone 4S and is fascinated with Siri, the voice recognition software. He then pulls up an app your team developed for the company a few months ago and tells you that he wants it to work with voice commands just like Siri. When you pass this information on to your team, the news is met with groans and angry expressions. One of your developers tells you that it would be way too complicated to add voice recognition into the app and that you should have said no. Suggest three techniques to overcome the challenges of implementing natural language into interface designs.

15. CIS 524 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com CIS 524 Week 5 Discussion 2 Developing Commands For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com "Developing Commands" Please respond to the following: You have just finished reviewing a design project your team has submitted to you and noticed that the team members used a great deal of command abbreviations. Explain to your team the value of using abbreviations for commands and give them at least two advantages and disadvantages associated with using abbreviations. Support your answer.

16. CIS 524 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com CIS 524 Week 6 Assignment 2 Menu Selection For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Assignment 2: Menu Selection Due Week 6 and worth 80 points Despite being a fairly old technology, menu-driven interfaces are very common in user interface design. Menu-driven interfaces consist of a series of screens which are navigated by choosing options from lists.

17. CIS 524 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com CIS 524 Week 6 Discussion 1 Interaction Devices For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com "Interaction Devices" Please respond to the following: Touch screens are becoming extremely popular input devices for phones and tablets. Assess the value of touch screen devices related to human-computer interaction systems. Identify at least two advantages and two disadvantages of having touch screen devices in the workplace. Support your response by citing a quality resource.

18. CIS 524 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com CIS 524 Week 6 Discussion 2 Collaboration and Social Media For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com "Collaboration and Social Media" Please respond to the following: While planning for a new project, a young developer mentions that she used Facebook as a collaborative group space for developing her senior project. She tells you that it was the ideal solution since it was free and all of her group members were friends with her. Further, she tells you that your company should do the same thing. Explain whether or not you think that Facebook would be a proper venue for your developers to collaborate. Give at least three reasons for your answer.

19. CIS 524 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com CIS 524 Week 7 Case Study 3 Security For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Case Study 3: Security Due Week 7 and worth 100 points A large, fast-food chain unveiled a new touch screen register for its franchises. Each cashier was assigned a user id and password combination to log in to the register. The system allowed the incorrect password to be entered four (4) times before the register would lock and require a manager to unlock it with a key card. To prevent unauthorized access, the registers would lock after three (3) minutes if the screen was not touched. When the register locked, only the cashier who was logged in prior to it locking could unlock it without a system restart.

20. CIS 524 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com CIS 524 Week 7 Discussion 1 Quality of Service For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com 1) Your design team presents a project to you, in which most inputs seem to have about a 1.5-second delay before a response. The lead designer has decided this response is acceptable. Analyze response- time models and decide if the response time in the presented project is acceptable. Explain why it is or is not.

21. CIS 524 Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com CIS 524 Week 7 Discussion 2 Balancing Function and Fashion For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com 3)Error messages are a key part of an overall interface design strategy of guidance for the user. Discuss strategies to ensure integrated, coordinated error messages that are consistent across an application. 4) Choose the one topic covered in Chapter 11 (error messages, non- anthropomorphic design, display design, window design, and color) that creates the biggest challenge to achieving balance between function and fashion. Support your response.

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