Individual homework 2--English learning app case study

The first part: research, evaluation

1. Download and use to describe the simplest and most intuitive personal first-time experience.

Hands-on experience: very easy to use, the search location is very obvious, after entering the search content is also very convenient to find all the word interpretation. The homepage also has a number of selected English articles, as well as quick links to Twitter and Facebook.

2.2. In accordance with the definition of bugs described in section 13.1 of the Building Act, find a few functional, more serious bugs, at least 2.

Bug (1) Part of the word phonetic transcription is not allowed

(2) There is only one explanation for the English words, and it is not possible to consult the explanations of the words in multiple dictionaries.

3. Use a Professional language description (no less than 40 words per bug), if necessary, you can map.

(1) Phonetic transcription of the bug: This bug includes many aspects, such as some words are not pronounced, some words are not clear phonetic transcription, and do not elaborate on this aspect.

(2) A single bug in English word interpretation: in the design may be considered not comprehensive, not included in the interpretation of the authoritative dictionary. If you just need to look up the general meaning of the words can also, do not do professional inquiries, and meticulous research.

4. Believe that each classmate's friends must be someone who needs to use such software, choose a Friend (user) to conduct an interview, and to record.

The use of the software students for this software evaluation is relatively good, the interface is more user-friendly, including query records and so on.

The students who use this software are preparing for the level six exam, which needs to memorize some words, and this software just can collect new words, so as to make it easy to remember again. Students said that in the process of English-Chinese translation, want to see the English interpretation, but found that the English interpretation is not authoritative, or not comprehensive. If more than one authoritative dictionary is included in the software, it will be of great help to learn English knowledge.

To sum up, I think this software is good, good.

Part II: Analysis

For the English word is not comprehensive enough to understand the problem, need to include a number of dictionaries (such as Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Advanced English, Collins English-Chinese dictionary, etc.).

To solve this problem, it takes the following time:

Team size of 6 people, Computer University graduate development team, demand Research 1 weeks, demand analysis 1 weeks, system design 1 weeks, software coding 3 weeks, testing and improvement 4 weeks, total 10 weeks.

Software	Interface	Core functions	User Experience
Youdao Dictionary	So so	Good	Good
Bing Dictionary	Better	Good	So so

III. Recommendations and Planning

1. If you are a project manager, how can you improve and win in the competition?

A: Do more research, summarize the user's feedback and analysis, the latter is constantly updated to improve.

2. What kind of products are available on the market?

Answer: Youdao dictionary, Jinshan Dictionary and so on.

3, what kind of function do you want to design?

A: Add a number of authoritative dictionaries included.

4, why do you want to do this function, not other features?

A: In the English-Chinese translation process, many English words can not accurately find the corresponding Chinese words, need to be interpreted in English to accurately understand. More than the authoritative dictionary comparison, more user-friendly use, but also expanded the dictionary for the crowd.

5. Why do users use your products/features?

Answer: Easy to use, accurate, fast, and more authoritative than other dictionaries.

6. where is your innovation ? Please use NABCD Analysis

1) N (need demand)

This idea solves the user's higher level demand, not only requires translation, but also requires accuracy and authority. There are a few people who have this demand, to do English level 46, postgraduate and IELTS TOEFL customers will need this feature.

2) A (approach procedure)

After the explanation of the word, add the name of the dictionary and the relevant explanations. (Difficult to implement, need to do a lot of connection or input)

3) B (benefit benefits)

It brings a more professional experience to the user, and also has the normal function of other dictionaries.

4) C (competitors Competition)

"For professionals" the market is very large, I believe that this will become more and more basic.

5) D (Delivery delivery)

Good publicity, to reflect the characteristics of the software, to attract users.

7, if you come to lead this team, what will be different?

A: It's hard to say, I can only do my best to make it better.

8. If your team has 5 People , 4 months, you as a project manager, how should you configure roles (development, testing, artwork, etc.)?

Answer: Development 3 Man, Art 1 people, testing 1 people. (Development and testing personnel according to the actual situation adjustment) specific time and development, art, testing staff to decide after consultation.

9. Describe what your team does each week during the 16 week period in order to release the software and size milestone settings as scheduled in the 16th week.

1 Weeks: Demand research

2 Weeks: Demand analysis

3-4 Weeks: System design

5-10 weeks: Software encoding

11-15 weeks: Testing and improvement

16 Weeks: Release

Individual homework 2--English learning app case study