Designing Interfaces and Dialogues

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Imagine the design of a system used to register students at a university. Discuss the user, task, system, and environmental characteristics (see Table 13-9) that should be considered when designing the interface for such a system.

TABLE 13-9 Characteristics for Consideration When Designing Forms and Reports
Characteristic Consideration for Form and Report Design
User Issues related to experience, skills, motivation, education, and personality should be considered.
Task Tasks differ in amount of information that must be obtained from or provided to the user. Task demands such as time pressure, cost of errors, and work duration (fatigue) will influence usability.
System The platform on which the system is constructed will influence interaction styles and devices.
Environment Social issues such as the users' status and role should be considered in addition to environmental concerns such as lighting, sound, task interruptions, temperature, and humidity. The creation of usable forms and 4reports may necessitate changes in the users' physical work facilities.

Solution

The process of registration starts with the university informing the students for the admissions through some mass communication media for ex. Website, print media.
The notification should clearly specify the candidate:
• Required minimum educational qualifications
• The initial registration fee
• The proper place for registering yourself( website/manually through some form)
• Last date for registering yourself.
• Documents required at the time of admission.

(Note: This is just an example, more info can be added as required)

Then a new student applies for the university having the proper qualification and the initial fee payment as prescribed.

All the details that are required to be ...