Endsem Take-home Part
Q1
Design an interface for the Indian railways site to select desired stations,
date, class and train in order to book a ticket. Please consider that:
- There are 6,856 railway stations and 8,702 passenger trains daily to
choose from
- Some destinations are not listed with their most popular names (e.g.
there is no station called Goa, but a station called Madgaon, but people
may look for Goa)
- Some cities have multiple stations where long-distance trains stop
(e.g. Mumbai has Mumbai Central, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Andheri,
Bandra, Borivali, Kurla, Vashi, Dadar etc.)
- Any other observations, insights, constraints suitable to your chosen
target audience.
Train tickets are bought by a wide cross section of the population. You
may choose to target all of them or a part of the audience. Your solution my
be applicable on any one of HTML web page, a DHTML web page, on a Flash /
Java applet enabled website, on an ATM like self-service machine, a mobile
phone or on any dedicated hardware that you may design. Your answer should
contain:
- A description of your choice of the target audience, including
additional constraints that your choice posed.
- The design process you followed to solve the problem.
- A description of a proposed solution. If you wish to communicate your
solution using text / drawings, you could attach hard copy of your
solution to the paper or write / draw it in the space provided. If you
wish to create a prototype, you may submit your solution as a soft copy at
the time of the endsem.
- Justification of your solution as the most appropriate for the target
audience.
Q2
For any one HCI-related heuristic from the ones listed below, identify:
- an example of good use of heuristic
- an example where the heuristic was not used or used inappropriately
- an example where the heuristic is gone against, and yet the design is
effective
You may choose any one heuristic of the following:
- Modality
- Direct manipulation
- Multiple input paths
- Visibility
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