Design
EasyShop is a website that is meant to make shopping easier for the elderly as well as those with poor eyesight. What makes our website more desirable to elderly people is our emphasis on customer service, our sites ability to change the sizes of search results, and general minimalistic style.
Walk-through
Main page
Sign up page.
Successful sign up.
Implementation
We decided to make our website a ruby-on-rails based system. The site is hosted on Heroku and
Evaluation
Briefing
Scenario
You are an elderly person that is buying a basketball for your grandson for his birthday.
Please do the following tasks:
- Make an account
- Search for basketball
- Re-size search results to "small", then "big"
- Pick Spalding basketball
- Check reviews
- Add to cart
- Checkout
- Pay with following fake information:
- Card number: 4242 4242 4242 4242
- Expiration: 07/17
- Name on card: "your_name"
- CVC: 123
- Got to your profile page
- Under purchase history, select the basketball you purchased
- Give this item a review
User 1
User 2
User 3
Reflection
We lost a lot of crucial time dealing with development issues in the beginning of the implementation process. Computers that were running on Windows could not be used to develop and eventually we had to start booting Ubuntu