FIT3175 Usability - Semester 1 2025
Usability Design Project (90%)
Overview
Working in a small group, you will design and deliver a prototype of a mobile application that allows specific users to achieve specific tasks.
Through a series of design stages (Submissions 1 to 4), you will complete individual and group tasks to ensure that your project applies principles and theory covered in the unit to improve the user experience of your application.
Project Brief
Mobile applications are used by different types of people to easily complete goals. A well designed application can allow even a novice user to navigate and manage complex information utilising many different features of a modern mobile phone.
Many people want to learn to cook or bake for a variety of reasons, but do not have anyone to teach them. Some turn to searching for recipes online, but are overwhelmed by the sheer number available and the unnecessary additional information or complex procedures many of these recipes include.
The aim of this assignment is to design a mobile application that allows users to search for online cooking classes based on format and category and view or book into a cooking class, where they can participate and receive feedback on their progress.
Some high level user requirements will need to be covered by the proposed app, which are:
1. Allow users to find online cooking classes that suit their needs.
2. Allow users to participate in online cooking classes.
3. Allow users to share their progress with instructors and receive feedback.
4. <additional requirement>
5. <additional requirement>
Specific implementation of app features will be decided in Submission 2.
Working in a Group
By the end of the week 2 applied class, you should have allocated yourself to a group of 4 members. If any students in an applied class are left without a group, tutors may need to move some people from other groups. Once your groups have been finalised, you will remain in the same assignment group for the rest of the semester.
The project includes stages that require timely completion of individual and group assessment work. Workload will be scaled to match the number of group members.
Once you have been allocated to a group, you will remain in that group for the rest of the semester. Group members are expected to assume key responsibilities:
● Work in group assessments should be evenly distributed
● Agree on a communication platform. for group members to use
● Agree on tools and methods for working collaboratively
● Let your tutor know as soon as possible when a group member fails to meet their responsibilities.
Note: Any extensions a student gets through special consideration for a group assessment applies to the whole group. However, these are sometimes not automatically shown in Moodle (the teaching team can see your extension but your group mates cannot). If you receive an extension, it is your responsibility to communicate this to your teammates. Even with an extension, you are still required to have worked on the group submission before and after the period for which you received the extension, ie. an extension is not grounds for not contributing to the assignment or communicating with your group mates. Please be aware that short extensions are not available for group assignments.
Peer-review will be used to collect information about individual group member participation. This information will be used to evaluate each member’s contribution to the project and may be used to ask for evidence of communication/contribution, which may in turn result in adjustment of marks.
Project Stages
Work for this project will be completed in 4 stages:
● Submission 1 - Understand Your Users (25%, group and individual, due Friday Week 5)
● Submission 2 - Low-Fidelity Prototype (25%, individual, due Friday Week 8)
● Submission 3 - High-Fidelity Prototype and Evaluation (30%, group and individual, due Friday Week 12)
● Submission 4 - Presentation Video (10%, group and individual, due Week 14)
Assessment briefs and rubrics for each stage will be made available in relevant weeks during the semester.