Attached you should find the illustrated instructions by the
Dukesters for Portal J, which is a Duke Energy application.  The instructions
are a guide for new employees to Duke Energy that would be utilizing this Web
2.0 program.  You can find below the files for instructions and usability
test on Portal J.  Thank you to all of
those who helped with the revisions and made suggestions for the completed
project of the illustrated instructions project.  

Project Proposal Link:

http://www.digitalparlor.org/sp08/mckelvey3/node/1264

Usability Test Link:

http://www.digitalparlor.org/sp08/mckelvey3/node/1479

The work plan for completing this project should be fairly
short.  We will be using the user
response from the reviews we got on the instructions and usability test to
finalize both drafts.  I think both
drafts are very good, however the instructions may be able to use more work
than that of the usability test.  We will
continue to communicate to finish this project and squeeze it into our work
schedules.  I think this project is in
the home stretch for use with just a few minor tweaks lefts to perform.

We need to update our draft with the comments and suggestions left by another group. I need to find the definition of DCE and UI, which we used in our illustrated instructions. I asked some of the full time Engineers that work here and they didn’t know what it actually stood for. Tyler or I will need to make a brief cover note introducing the project either tomorrow or Wednesday. We also need to do some work to lengthen the instructions. I have some ideas on areas to add to that will possibly help the user. I believe this project can be a success after a little more work.

The Dukesters have gotten a lot of work done this week. For wednesday me and Tyler split up the work and I did the instructions and Tyler did the usuability test. Together I think we did a great job and are looking foward to incorporating any feedback we get into the instructions. Both of our work schedules have been getting more difficult, but we have been keeping each other on track. I have been working at least 14 hour days at work and it is difficult to get much homework done this week. Simply finding time to do my assigned work and sleep has become my biggest challenge.

During week 11 the Dukesters had a pretty good week. I believe we are both getting into some busy times at work which hinders our time to focus on this project, but still managed to put in quality work. We continued communicating well via the telephone and email. We got our draft of the instructions combined for Portal J along with the revised usability test. Tim worked on putting together a good combination of the two illustrated instructions and I revised the usability test with a few different points. We are still working on getting the instruction draft worked through and the usability test filled out but will be completed shortly. Overall it has been a productive week after the nice week long break last week.

Attached is the draft for the illustrated instructions and usability test. Any feedback or comments are greatly appreciated.

During this week of project two, illustrated instructions,
the Dukesters were very productive.  We
came up with illustrated instructions individually and then talked about them
later.  Our instructions came out similar
with some good parts to each one.  We
will be making the final draft with something in between the two.  The usability test was mostly created by Tim
and then he emailed it to me so I could put my input on it also.  I think this has been a very successful week
for the Dukesters getting everything in on time and at a high quality.  We will continue to work together to complete
the project and likely enjoy our break from class this next week, but
unfortunately won’t get a break from work.

This week was a very successful week for our group. We also communicated very well over the course of the week and worked together. It also helped that neither of us had to work much overtime this week. At this time we are just starting to work on combining the two individual reports. We discussed with each other what we liked about each others reports and I believe we will be working on our combined draft paper next week. Being spring break next week I doubt we will get a lot of work done though till late in the week. This week I had to shoot more screen shots to cover a few details I had missed.   

Attached are the documents for the Dukesters team on the usability test. It contains the two individual illustrated instructions and the usability test draft. Please review, comments and feedback is welcomed.

Attached is my individual instructions draft for the web 2.0 Protal J for placing a material request.  Any feedback and comments is welcomed.