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Task Plan

10.1-15.02
Planning

10.15-31.02
Research & Analysis		 11.1-15.02
Design		 11.16-30.02
Construction, Verification and Deployment

1. Project Information
2. Proposal
3. Task Plan

4. Current Site Map
5. Preliminary Evaluation
6. User Scenarios
7. Scenario Paths
8. Competitor Evaluations
9. Content Audit
10. Card Sort
11. Content Analysis

12. Revised Sitemap
13. Preliminary Designs
14. Cognitive Walkthrough
15. Wireframes

 16. Prototype
17. Style Guide

October 1 - 15, 2002 - Planning
The planning phase will involve gathering information to shape the requirements of the IA and determine the context in which the IA is developed. To gather the necessary information, we will interview primary stakeholders (ATI Director and Webmaster) and end users, develop user scenarios, study website usage, review design of the current website and legal and business policies. To support an effective design we will also study other web sites and commercial web sites to develop benchmarks for the new web site. Additionally, we will inventory the content of the current site.

1) Meet with ATI to identify site goals and target users
2) Develop Proposal and present to ATI
3) Create current Site map
4) Conduct Preliminary evaluation of the current Site
5) Write user scenarios
6) Track user scenario navigation paths
7) Evaluate comparable web sites for benchmarking
8) Conduct content audit

Oct. 16 - 31, 2002 – Analysis
As information is gathered, we will begin a detailed analysis. The analysis will yield the requirements for the architecture and will reflect the users’ expectations and goals for the web site. This includes developing the website mission, a user oriented taxonomy to categorize information in the website, and structuring the content based on the taxonomy.

9) Develop navigation and information architecture based on scenarios and content
10) Revise Site map
Nov. 1 - 15, 2002 – Design
The architecture for the website will be constructed using the detailed requirements, content, and user analysis derived in the Planning and Analysis phases. The architecture and navigation scheme will be based on the user oriented taxonomy and content matrix. A wireframe of pages will be developed to represent the key pages of the web site.
11) Design wireframes for key pages, focusing on use of templates
12) Develop Site Style Guide
Nov. 16 -30 , 2002 – Construction, Verification and Deployment
The style guide will be written and the prototypes implemented. We will perform user testing of prototypes and refine the prototypes based on test results.
13) Implement low-fi prototypes
14) Refine prototypes through usability testing

Dec. 1, 2002 - Final Walkthrough Review
We will meet with ATI to assure project goals have been met. In addition to the design, recommendations will be made for content maintenance and web site expansion and extension.

Dec. 3, 2002 - Group Project Presentations/Post-Mortem Report
We will present our project to the class and to ATI, and we will provide a post-mortem report that reviews what we felt went well with the project, as well as areas that could be improved.

 
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