Task Details/Description:
Compare and critically appraise the dashboard displays of two fitness apps pictures below.
Apple's Activity
You should make clear reference to relevant theories including Tufte's theories of Graphical Integrity and Graphical Excellence, Few principles and Gestalt principles.
Spreadsheets
You are to draw up a specification and house style and then design, build and test a new version of the spreadsheet for the task described below:
Uswitch, wishes to have an excel spreadsheet which can be down-loaded from their website which will provide advice as to best gas and electricity deals available. The system should be able to cope with different types of deal including
1. Joint fuel deals
2. Internet only deals
3. Fixed and variable cost deals
4. Filtering by different payment types
The system should be also able to give advice on the amount of carbon dioxide the householder is producing. Ideally it should allow the user to track their usage (for example by the user entering regular meter readings) and alert them when it might be advisable to switch provider and calculate savings made by introducing energy saving products.
In considering your design you should note:
The data on currently available tariffs will need to be able to be updated. The final format for tariff data has not been decided so you should suggest an appropriate one, and provide example data that demonstrates that your spreadsheet will be able to be updated as required.
Need to submit:
1. Your system (which should work in Excel 2016)
2. Your printout of a word document including:
a. Your specification of the system (including example customer data and tariff data).
b. Your house style appropriate to the USwitch brand.
c. A test schedule.
d. Some detailed test results which should demonstrate the system at least works correctly on the example data (from 1 above)
To obtain good marks your system should demonstrate the following:
1. At least one fully working UserForm
2. Use of cell protection, data validation and conditional formatting.
3. Clear documentation of VBA code
4. Clear and uncluttered layout informed by theory.
5. Appropriate error messages
6. Ability to update the tariff data.
7. The ability to both sort and filter the deals.
Attachment:- assignment.rar