Part -1:
• What changes would you expect to see?
• What input/output devices would be common in the future that are not widely available today?
• What devices would be obsolete, and why?
Do some research and back up your forecast with trend data. Summarize your research as part of your posting and list your sources. While you may give your opinion, this is a research assignment, listing sources strengthens your opinion and provides other students with the opportunity to investigate sources they might be interested in as well.
Part - 2:
Discuss the Willowbrook Case Study and complete the deliverables.
You should be using the Willowbrook School case study which can be accessed in the Course Documents area of your course. Use your group forum to exchange ideas and submit draft work. When your deliverables are completed, save them to a single Word document and attach a copy of the document to this Assignment for grading.
Submit the diagrams and answers to the questions given. The answers should be in paragraph form, double spaced, and in APA format. Save your document in MS Word format and attach it to this assignment. Please make sure you spell and grammar check the document before submittal, as errors in this respect will be deducted from the total points earned. Correctly cite any sources you use. This assignment is due by the end of the academic week.
Part -3:
Develop your own brief definition of what constitutes Good GUI Design principles. Now, open up any application that you have available to you (Office, WS-FTP, Solitaire), then answer the following questions:
1. Discuss whether or not the application behavior follows your definition of Good GUI Design principles. (Include your Design principles in your posting.)
2. What features would you add to this application to make it more functional?
3. What features would you delete from this application to make it more functional?
4. What is TCO? What is included in TCO? Why is this so important?
5. Define "system requirement". Provide an example for each category of system requirements.
6. Compare and contrast RAD and JAD.
Each answer should be in paragraph form and should be a minimum of 6 sentences (about 250 words for each paragraph), double spaced, and in APA format. Save your document in MS Word format and attach it to this assignment. Please make sure you spell and grammar check the document before submittal, as errors in this respect will be deducted from the total points earned. Correctly cite any sources you use. This assignment is due by the end of the academic week.