Homework 5 - Option 3
Your assignment under this option is to perform a heuristic evaluation of the University's "Degree Navigator" (http://www.testudo.umd.edu/dnentry.html) and then prepare a report discussing the redesign of the site. This report should include (at a minimum) a redesign prototype (either actual HTML or "Photoshop"ed images) of the starting page for the resource, and possibly the second level of pages. While you should think about your own tasks and goals as a user of the page, you are also required to speak with some users to come up with representative tasks and goals to assist you in your walkthrough.

This report should be written in a professional manner. The target audience should be considered to be a University Senate committee looking into ways to improve "Degree Navigator" to support student goals. Since such a committee might actually be formed as part of the new "Student Academic Success-Degree Completion Policy" initiative, this is not an unrealistic target.

You may use any design tool available for HTML authoring, such as FrontPage, Netscape Composer, etc. or code directly in HTML. You can also create realistic screenshots using a "painting" program and give a clear guide as to which links go to which pages. You need to do your development on a local machine and not on the web itself. This means that you will need to zip (or tar and compress) the directory you create with you web pages and e-mail that to me. To repeat, your web page may not be on the web itself. The written portions should be turned in at class time. Any HTML files should be sent to me at eg43405@wam.umd.edu.