Page History

...

Overview
Storyboard
Analysis

This interface divides the screen into 3 panes. The leftmost pane gives a visual representation of the courses necessary to fulfill the requirements of the category (GIR, major, HASS). The middle pane shows all available classes which fulfill the selected requirement. The right pane gives the class schedule based off of the current selection. Clicking on each course name in the middle pane will bring up another window showing the details of the course. The goal of this interface is to provide the users with all information required to choose classes in a single screen (maximize the amount of important information visible in a single state).

 Image Added
 Image Added
 <image: design 3 (to be scanned)>

Design 3 sacrifices learnability for efficiency and visibility. The interface is slightly more complicated to learn than our previous designs, but one nice part about it is that most important information is visible all the time (few different screens of information). The current schedule, choices of classes under a specific requirement, and course requirements and dependencies are all visible at any given time. Because of this, it is very quick and easy to access and view important information. In terms of error prevention, the only user errors possible with the system would be registering for two different classes which meet at the same time. This is taken care of by the user interface because the courses which conflict with the currently selected courses would be grayed out (and thus could not be selected).