April 17th - Design Interfaces for Secondary Features

Team Members Involved: Micheal Seng and Jonathan Wai

The goal for this Milestone was to draft designs and concepts for some of the secondary features of the dashboard. Unfortunately, we got sidetracked by thinking deeply about many new assignments to come, namely the Poster Design, the rewriting of our Abstract, and potential video pitches. Because of this shifted focus, we weren't able to go over the designs in detail as originally planned.

However, we did make a list of improvements to make with our site's secondary features, such as:

• Making the ADD button larger and more prominent (a longstanding complaint of the system)
• Shifting around the layout of User Settings to facilitate better flow and grouping of options
• Potentially creating more intuitive ADD forms for Folders and Devices

As for our sidetrack goals, we got a good number of ideas on the table for the following:

• Poster Design: A Color Inventory was taken of our existing Dashboard design, and this color scheme will most likely be used in our poster design. Actual layout pending.
• Abstract: Given the feedback in lecture today, we took a new look at our abstract. We only got one coherent sentence down, but it's a much stronger pitch than our original abstract. The new first sentence is "Modern companies rely on an increasing number of devices that they cannot effectively manage." More tweaking is required to reduce vagueness, but it's a good start.
• Video Pitch: We wanted to make our excitement known about our product, and Michael (Del Fante) jokingly mentioned "Is your refrigerator running?" The idea of using a joke for lightheartedness, while being able to accurately answer the question, really resonated with me, and I would like to use it for our pitch moving forward.

So while this milestone didn't exactly get the stated goal completed, we got a few thoughts for moving forward with our project in other areas. Micheal (Seng) will update this entry later when he's sketched up some of his ideas for the secondary features.

Team Members Involved: Micheal Seng and Jonathan Wai.

Here are the design interfaces for secondary features.

3 options on the menu - Profile, Group Management, and User Management

Profile - landing page (possibly change in the future)

Profile - edit

Profile contains information pertaining to the user, which are name, email, phone number, and notifications settings (email and phone)


                           

Group Management

Group Management - add

User Management

User Management - Add

There are two types of actions that can be taken when user hover over specific group / user, either edit or delete. Currently, you can see there are two types of actions UI: only text mode or icon+text mode. I'm afraid the icon is not intuitively to all user and also the text edit and delete only shows up when user hover over it.

Currently, permission settings is sets by Ombitron. But, there are possibilities that this will be more flexible, where client could have the flexibility to name and set settings for each permission.

Under Permission Settings: Super Admin, Group Admin, Admin and Basic.

Super Admin: Delete groups, users, folders, and users. Add group, users, refrigerator, and folder.

Group Admin: Add+Delete group and user. Add refrigerator and folder.

Admin: Add+ user, refrigerator and folder. 

Basic: View folders and refrigerators