Meetings 3-5

Progress

This month we spent learning about the X5GON Learn platform’s vision, establishing a first draft of the Moscow list of requirements, getting feedback on this list, developing personas and building a UI prototype.

Moscow List – first draft

Based on our discussions with the clients we wrote down an initial list of requirements. We sorted them based on must haves, should haves, could haves and won’t haves.

After finishing this list, we gathered feedback from the clients.

Client Feedback

The clients were happy with the requirements we have drafted up, however, they told us that our draft has to become more fine grained and more specific.

In particular, they instructed us to separate the requirements into the project’s two main parts:

1. Software engineering (design and build a google-like web interface that communicates with a backend API)

2. Machine learning (develop a search engine and test it on relevance-labelled data sets)

Personas

As part of our HCI assignment, we had already developed personas. Now that we were more familiar with our project’s details, we refined these personas. Below you can see an example persona of a university professor that would like to use X5GON to find additional teaching materials for his students.

UI Prototype

We made a prototype for the user interface (UI) of our application and it is available with interactive functionalities at https://xd.adobe.com/view/7f53d56f-6142-4015-8775-954c393144de-2a00/screen/30a043ec-9944-439a-84c9-4618f1b443e0?fullscreen&hints=off.

The final UI design might be different, but the user experience will definitely be similar.

Plans

• Finalise and expand our Moscow list of requirements, add more detail to each requirement

• Design the application’s architecture and start the development phase of a first prototype