ADS 560 Kirkland Syllabus v2.0 20180106

ADS 560, Interaction Design, Spring 2018
Monday / Wednesday @ 6:00-9:00pm
Matt Kirkland / mattk@ku.edu / Slack @matt

Fearless Inventory

In this intro project, you will design a tool for an imaginary coffee chains's warehouse inventory. Your solution will assist a user in reconciling a putative inventory quantity with actual in-person inventory in a physical location. You'll get to invent and design a coffee brand, but many specific functional details will be mandated here.

Your Client

Your client is the Operations Director for a chain of 30 coffeeshops. Here's her request to you:

We need help! I've got a fancy ordering system that lets my local store managers order stuff from my central warehouse - nonperishable stuff like plates, cups, aprons, brand merch, and even tea. The system keeps track of their orders, and subtracts it from the inventory count at my central warehouse. That system tells me what I should have remaining in stock at the warehouse, but that doesn't always match up with reality.

I need something audit what we really have in stock and compare that with what we think we have in stock.

Here's my current inventory readout. I have no idea if this is accurate. Help!

Deliverables

We'll go step-by-step through specific design deliverables that get us closer to an interactive system to solve our client's problem. We'll discuss each deliverable before we start, but this will include:

  • Problem Discovery and Solution Concepts 2/29
  • Loose Wireframes (Hand-drawn, 5 sets, for each concept) 2/31
  • Loose Wireframe Prototype (Created and shared in Invision) 3/5 ... NO CLASS.
  • Guerilla User Testing (5 users) 3/7?
  • Tight Wireframes (1 set, designed in Sketch) 3/12
  • Wireframe Prototype (Created and shared in Invision) 3/12
  • Guerilla User Testing (5 users) 3/14
  • Mockups (Designed in Sketch) 3/19
  • Mockup Prototype (Created and shared in Invision) 3/21

Some other requirements:

  • We'll be designing for mobile devices. Figure out the proportions of your phone.
  • We need to represent this actual inventory reference.
  • We'll be working collaboratively for a lot of this project. Get used to the idea!