Research
We researched about Univeral Design and Universal Experience. We
learned that the best experience is delivered on a website through
a clear, visible and comprehendable webpage, regardless of the
user's ability, disability, age or size and other characteristics.
Surely, users would like to use a visually pleasing and
comprehensible product. We also learned that we need consistency
on our webpage. If huge differences are made between webpages, it
is not easily understandable and is probably frustrating for the
user. We think the most important aspect is that the user feels in
charge and comfortable. i used this information to develope this website
for the user to find out imformation on green recycling.
Application of this universal design principles minimizes the need
for assistive technology.It creates products, systems, and
environments to be as usable as possible by as many people as
possible irrespective of external factors.
Response to the Brief
Our project was envisaged for users who would like to get a brief
outline of information of the globel warmimg crisite that they
would like to know. Therefore, our target audience are people who
like to recycle frequently and would like to know quick information
like the top year in whitch recycleing hit its peek years, the easist ways to start recycleing and the cheapest
ways .
with for example ;
Final artefact in operation
Click here to view the full project code
We were able to create a fully functional website that allows the
user to find out how to recycle and what they can changee in thier
lifes to help whit the stop of globel warming.
Client Side --The client side
is what happens to the information when the user clicks
the button on the website navigation bar will bbring you to diffrent
ways to recycle and graphs to show imformations. The relevent data is
requested from the database and displayed back to the user in a list.
When the button is clicked a message displaying .
The database--
HTML code
Website page
Client side javascript code
Server side javascript code
Create country table in database
Insert information into info table in database
Create a new table combining information
Design
Our Development
We identified that there is a pattern to be followed with code
that uses a user-inputted value, links two tables and retrieves
the relevent information. We used this to our advantage and
manipulated our code in order to suit our variable names and
needs. This way, we addressed abstraction.
We realised even before writing the code how valuable and needful
data was to our project. In order to collect the data on the
relevent countries, we compiled the data onto one page
which can be viewed here.
Though we did not use hardware in this project, we did learn the
uses of communication between server side javascript and client
side javascript. We realised that variables had to be the same so
the effect communication could be done between parts of code.
We think that our design was the best way of approach for the
completion of this task. We believe that this programme would be
used the initially planning stages of a trip as it gives the user
an approximate cost reality check.
Reflection
We were asked to design an interactive website where we must
retrieve information from a relational database and give it to the
user appropriately.
Our webiste asks the users to input a country, the country and
relevant data are retrieved from the database and displayed to the
user.We planned and found a solution to our task before
implimentation.
We worked effieciently as a team. Everybody met the task they were
assigned to the best of their ability. Our final artefact turned
out as we had hoped. We were all challenged by our individual
tasks but helped each other out if we were struggling. Our biggest
challenge was connecting the two tables in the database i.e. the
server side javascript. We got help on how to use the foreign key
and primary key from our teacher aswell.
Further Development
Perhaps if we had longer to work on this project, we would like to
have the facility for the user to look up the amount or the product that is recycled.
In that case we could have the weight and the year it was recycled
which would be more useful to the user.
We would have also
liked to alter the code in order to display the material that was recycled
as well as the information mentioned.
Due to
our limitation in knowledge, we had to google certain tasks in order
for the code to work. If possible, we would
We also used an already existing information
table to display to the imformation instead of having to type up all the
information in the database.