Did You Know...

Intro | Organize | Meet Client | Design | Prototype | Develop | Maintain

Meet with the Client

First of all, our team had to figure out what it is that we were supposed to do!

This is the part where we had to schedule a meeting with our client to talk about what she needed.

At this meeting, we wanted to find out:
- What does the client need?
- What does the client want?
- Who is going to use it? Consider age, intelligence, experience
- Where will they use it? Schools, kiosk (standalone exhibit), home
- Are there any cultural or accessibility issues?

You may ask what "accessibility" is. The goal is to make a product accessible to all users, even those with disabilities or limitations. For example, blind people have "screen readers" to read a webpage, but some of these screen readers do not work well if the page does not include extra information such as alternate text for pictures.

Often, the client does not know exactly what he or she wants! Many programmers tend to follow exactly what the client says instead of proposing alternatives.

The team figured out that creating this web page would be a great way to fulfill the requirements given by the client. Previous teams used the Flash presentation to do this. Our team decided that it would be cool to expand the Flash presentation by adding a kitchen, and also to add this "Did You Know..." webpage to explain how the process worked. We figured the web page would be the best way to inform students of what is involved in our job. Who knows, maybe you will decide to be a software engineer someday!

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