Web App Design and Modelling

Question 1

Within software engineering abstraction, what can we abstract?

Answer 1

Workflow design
Data design
Navigation design
Presentation design
Architecture design

Question 2

What design principles are there in software engineering?

Answer 2

1) Abstraction:
we can abstract - 
Workflow design
Data design
Navigation design
Presentation design
Architecture design

2) Refinement:
information centric or user centric

3) Modularity:
encapsulation

Question 3

How many design principles are there in software engineering?

Answer 3

3

Question 4

What is another name for web specific data design?

Answer 4

Information Integration Engineering

This deals with multiple data sources

Question 5

What is navigation design?

Answer 5

Design how users will traverse information on the site, the structure of the site and navigation design behaviour

Question 6

What are the aims in presentation design?

Answer 6

Avoid cognitive overload

Question 7

What are the two major approaches to abstract presentation design?

Answer 7

Widgets (yay no exam questions on widgets wooo ily mitchell) and Interaction Spaces (inputs, outputs, actions, navigations)

Question 8

What’s the deal with concrete presentation design?

Answer 8

This can be translated to HTML with ease - being specific (eg. ‘button’ or ‘slider’ or ‘search box’, but keep it general guys, do not specify exact technology)

Question 9

What’s the deal with architecture design?

Answer 9

This is how designs thus far (concrete presentation, abstract presentation and navigation design) link together. Perhaps shows tiers of system (or tears of students).