Project Proposal

 I had the power of selecting between 6 deliverables for my project. After carefully reading each deliverable and researching ideas for each project, the project I have chosen from the list is Project 3- Agile Ageing. 

The brief provided an explicit understanding of some of the complicated objections and the intriguing opportunities, granted by an ageing population. Exceptionally, this project questions you to approach how older people can increase their mental agility, and in turn enhance their overall wellbeing, for a longer more fulfilling life. 

My overall achievement is to develop a responsive web application to provide age agility games such as memory games. The secondary aim of my website is to promote healthy eating within older people to ensure they are cautious of their brain activity.

Before I begin my project I will take part in a research phase. My research phase will include ensuring the website will be fully functional while also meeting the user requirements that I plan to set out.

My main objective is to create some sort of memory game. I hope to create a game of memory cards. This game allows users to flip a card over and try find its matcher.

Proposed Ideas

1.     Allow the user to sign up and login to the website.

2.     As this website, will be targeted for an older group of people I hope to achieve ‘help pop up’ boxes. These pop up boxes will help users if they find it hard to navigate around a website or finding it difficult in general. It will provide easy to use instruction on how to navigate throughout the website.

3.     Develop a numerous amount of brain training games. When a user plays the game again, the computer will display the users previous score.

4.     Provide nutrient information, exercise information and other ways to keeps your brain active

5.     Allow the users to fill in a query form. This form will allow users to ask any questions they may have about the website, game information or any general questions about a healthy lifestyle.

6.     All information from the query form and user sign up will be stored within a database.

Benefits

1.     This website will be used to promote mental fitness to prevent various diseases such as Alzheimer’s.

2.     It will also promote healthy eating and various other ways to exercise the brain as users get older in age.

To ensure I develop a fully functional website I will research key areas using a variety of books and websites. Before I begin to develop my project, I will investigate various websites that will be like the website I wish to develop. I will use these websites to make an improvement to the area of age agility

Secondly, I will develop several personas and user requirements. These user requirements will be based upon signing up to the website, logging in to the website and playing the games that will be featured on the website.

Research will also take place in the areas of healthy lifestyles to ensure the brain stays active as users grow in age.

Conceptual Design

1.     I will begin my project by designing how I want my website to look using Balsamiq. Balsamiq is ‘a wire framing and mock up tool with a high focus on usability.’ (Balsamiq, n.d.).

2.     The next step will be to take these wireframe and develop them using HyperText Mark Up Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)

3.     My overall website will be developed using HTML, CSS, SQL, PHP. The software I intend to use include: Netbeans, PHPMyAdmin, Brackets, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop.

a.     I will use Netbeans to code my website using PHP

b.     I will MySql to develop my database for my website

c.     The adobe suite is intended to be used to develop graphics and logos for my website.

4.     I will host my website using atspace.com