1. (i) Nature of the Solution
Design
(i) Nature of the Solution

2. Learning Outcomes: By the end of this section you should have:
designed methods of navigation through the system
menus & screens
designed the methods of data input
input forms
specified any validation required
input masks, validation rules
designed the methods of data storage
tables, fields, keys, relationships
designed the output required from the system
output forms

3. Design - Nature of the Solution
this is where you create, on paper, all the designs that will be used to develop the solution
your ideas of what the solution will look like 
the overall aim is that you should be able to pass all the design diagrams onto a third party
they should be able to create the required solution.
you’ve already designed the data structure
tables, fields, data types, keys, relationships, validation ....

4. Design Specification You now need to draw up (on paper) designs for:
input documents,
manual data-capture forms
menus 
data entry screens
search screens
output screens
output documents
reports
Note: all designs need to be annotated

5. Design Specification
3 steps to putting together your Design Specification:
Design and annotate everything on paper (hand drawn)
now get your end-user to write comments on your designs
Re-design and annotate on paper
in the light of your end users comments on your first design
now get your end-user to write comments on your 2nd draft
Transfer your designs to Access
these will be used as your “mock-ups”
can also be used as the “real thing” (later)
get your client to approve the mock-ups by exchange of s

6. Input Screen Designs
The above shows the main menu screen. The “View/Edit Rooms” and the “View/Edit Teachers” will both be password protected to ensure that the data within these tables cannot be edited by anyone.
The school logo will be an embedded image, with a border around it and will be imported from a jpg picture file given by the School. The close button will close the entire application.
The text on all of the buttons will maroon as per the design specification.
I will create the border in the same maroon to co-ordinate with the text colour.

7. Screen Design Specification

8. Input Screen Designs

9. Search Screen Designs

10. Report Designs

11. Navigational Pathways

12. Data Structure Design ‘Hand-drawn’ designs of :
entity structure in standard notation
CUSTOMER(CustID, Title, Forename, Surname, ……)
‘4-column’ table showing data structure for each entity
see template on website
Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD)
showing the degree of each relationship
table showing validation designs for each entity
you can use software but not screenshots from Access

13. ‘4-column’ table

14. ‘4-column’ table

15. Validation

16. Entity Relationship Diagram