Design
Implementation
Evaluation
Our user population for this project was a building manager, more specifically a house manager. Finding our users was simple and straight forward because there are twelve undergraduate dorms and 7 graduate residences each with their own housemaster. We attempted to set up appointments with the house managers and was only able to secure testing opportunities with two, one managing an undergraduate dorm and one managing a graduate residence. Our third user was a housemaster of an undergraduate dorm. Even though the housemaster is not the house manager, they are familiar with the duties of a house manager and sometimes share similar responsibilities, such as managing a budget, projects, and receiving student ideas and concerns.
Our final design has some serious usability issues. Starting with the homepage the boxes on the right side of the screen provide feedback that they are clickable by underlining. This is a consistency problem because even though are technically links to another page the are meant to be buttons. This problem could be fixed by having the "buttons" change color when the mouse hovers over them, similar to the current navigation buttons at the top of every screen.