This document discusses factors that affect the design, development, and success of an education administration project. It addresses the relationship between designers/producers and the project, how societal trends influence the design/production, and how creative/innovative approaches will be used. Specifically, it notes that simplicity is key, and that the design should be easily understood with no difficulty through techniques like pictures, videos, icons, headers, colors, spacing, and symbols. The target market of teenagers seeks interactivity with multimedia over large paragraphs of text.

1. Administration
Education

2. Where is the need?
1. Information exchange within the last decade
2. Educational institutions being left behind
3. Lengthy, repetitive processes left for teachers and
coordinators of schools to deal with
4. Specifically, Subject Selection (year 10s)
5. Currently, manual processes act as the solution
6. Problems relating to manual processes are also
encountered
7. Websites as a solution
Modern businesses are like
babies relying on technology

3. Current existing solutions
Online solutions
(similar to my proposed solution
however improvements need to be
made)
Offline solutions
(currently used by St Pauls and
majority of local schools)
Continue?

4. Online solutions
Positive
s
Negatives
Return?
1. Customizability
2. Works on all browsers
3. Simple to use
4. Readability – step-by-step process
5. Functionality
1. Aesthetics ?
2. Lack of multimedia ?
3. Cost ?
4. Effort simply to test ?

5. Aesthetics
Return?
No images
Important
information
displayed in a
boring chunk of
text
Similar colour
used to split
each section of
information
Are they trying to bore you to death?
Resolution?
Add more colour and change the design scheme and
layout

6. Lack of multimedia
Return?
Once again, they’re clearly trying
to bore you to death but this time
it’s the teachers fault... Right?
No, Teachers are only given the
ability to add text information in
this box which acts as subject
information for students.
Resolution?
Give teachers the ability to add multimedia

7. Cost
Return?
Because you have to pay...
Why SSO?
Even more fees...
Resolution?
Don’t be greedy, x5 your market and profit off
advertising

8. Effort simply to test
Return?
You have to apply to test their
product...
When it could, so simply, be
automatic
Resolution?
Create an automatic run-
through or test

9. Offline solutions
Return?

10. What am I researching and why?
7 Areas
Current subject
selection at St
Paul’s
Other subject
selection processes
Survey all users of
my system
Websites –
look/aesthetics/layout
Different web
providers
Evaluation/testing
process throughout
How my website
works and looks on
different browsers

11. Factors affecting my design, development and
success of my design project
1.
Relation between the practices and processes of
designers and producers to my project
2.
Explanation of the influence of trends in society on my
design and its production
3.
How I intend on using creative and innovative
approaches in designing and producing
4.
Topics to be discussed

12. Factors affecting my design, development and success of my design
project
Back?

13. Relation between the practices and processes of
designers and producers to my project
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“Simple can be
harder than complex:
You have to work
hard to get your
thinking clean to
make it simple.”
- Steve Jobs -
Co-founder and CEO of apple
Why do we assume that simple is good?
“Because with physical products, we have to
feel we can dominate them. “
“As you bring order to complexity, you find a
way to make the product defer to you.”
Only relevant details
Button icons represent their nature
Short and simple identifiers
Ability to switch between pages of apps
so the size of apps doesn’t have to be
compromised

14. Explanation of the influence of trends in society
on my design and its production
Back?
Teen Internet Usage
93% of teenagers go online
69% of teenagers have their own computer
63% of teenagers internet users go online every day
27% of teenagers use their phone to get online
24% of teenagers with a game console use it to go online
What is he looking at? Must be interesting!
4chan – image-based
bulletin board where
anyone can post
comments and share
images
HEAVILY DIRECTED
TOWARDS TEENAGERS
Click HERE to see how
Web usage as a trend

15. First thing to see, the
largest header which
introduces the user to
the website
Small blocks of
information
Relevant titles with
information specific to
that topic... Quick to
navigate!
Red used in the
header which then
leads your eye to the
websites summarised
purpose
Large titles
Use of different
colours and boxes to
separate topics and
information
Uploaded images
which can be viewed
and commented on
How are they targeting you?
Continue?

16. Are they targeting you?
Design can reveal the target market
Teenagers Adults
1. Large headings
2. Interactivity (Clicking, Uploading, Watching)
3. Multimedia used to reduce text and large
paragraphs
4. Likely to leave websites with poor presentation
regardless of useful content
1. Small, grouped information
2. Informative information (News, Reports)
3. More tolerant of a heavier text-to-images ratio
4. Willing to stick around and look at the
information before the multimedia and eye
candy
Facts and information found in a study recently completed by Jakob Nielson
“Usability: Teenagers get bored
quickly and frustrated easily online”
Back?

17. How I intend on using creative and innovative
approaches in designing and producing
Simplicity- What does this mean?
Sophistication:
Developed to a high degree of complexity.
Simplicity:
Easily understood or done; presenting no difficulty
How do I intend
on using
simplicity in my
design?
Back?

18. Creating simplicity in my design
How can Simplicity be
brought to my design?Pictures
Videos
Icons HeadersColours
Spacing and separation
Symbols
Rhetoric
Continue?

19. Presenting my final MDP
Laptop website displayPortfolio besides laptop
Reviews from teachers on my system
My Portfolio will be
placed on the left of the
laptop and reviews will
be on the right