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The "Projects" page presents an overview of all of the projects that have been created for the building. New projects can be created, and existing projects can be modified by clicking a row on the table. For the Projects page, we aligned the "Add New Project" form fields based on feedback received from the heuristic evaluations. We also made the table columns unresizable by the user. We made it more obvious that the table rows were clickable by having the mouse cursor change to a pointer when it hovered over the rows. Users were able to find the "Update Projects" form much more easily. The "Update Projects" page would pop up in front of the main Projects page both of these features are connected to the main database.
The 'Student Requests' page provides a view of incoming requests. The user can then choose to create a project out of any request, and clicking on the "Add Project" button takes them to an "Add New Project" form. The "Add New Project" form is automatically filled with the relevant information provided by the student. The request date becomes the start date, the request description becomes the description of the project and the floor is automatically transferred. This page is also connected to the main database.
We provided an "About" page to enable users to identify the site creators (and contact them if necessary). Also it was intended to provide a bit of information about the website. This was added based on feedback from the heuristic evaluation.
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Our final design has some usability issues. :
Starting with the homepage the boxes on the right side of the screen provide feedback that they are clickable by underlining (cosmetic). 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.
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From one of the house managers unknown should be a possible selection for Floor, Completion Date and Cost, because those fields aren't always know when a project is being started (minor). This would be a simple fix, but adding an indicator to the fields that are required or having an error message appear saying what fields are missing.
There is also and inconsistency between the alignment and layout of the "Add New Project" form and the "Update Project" form. A simple solution would be to keep the layout consistent to avoid errors and confusing the user.
The "email residents" checkbox was unclear to one of the test subjects as to who was getting emailed, whether if it was the email of the person/student who created the event or someone else (minor issue). This could be fixed by changing the text to "Email all dormitory residents" or adding a tooltip.
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