Design web environments Evidence Guide

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Evidence Guide: CUFDIG502A - Design web environments

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CUFDIG502A - Design web environments

What evidence can you provide to prove your understanding of each of the following citeria?

Determine project requirements

Analyse project brief to identify purpose of, and target audience for, web environments
Consult with clients to clarify project requirements
Identify target audience characteristics and determine how these influence all aspects of design
Identify content to be incorporated and generated and how this content is to be accessed, searched or delivered

Analyse project brief to identify purpose of, and target audience for, web environments

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Consult with clients to clarify project requirements

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Identify target audience characteristics and determine how these influence all aspects of design

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Identify content to be incorporated and generated and how this content is to be accessed, searched or delivered

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Research and select web environments

Research web environments and analyse their potential
Analyse how these web environments meet audience and content requirements
Identify issues relating to delivery platform and standards, and determine how these may affect web environment options
Consult relevant personnel to ensure that all possible web environment options are considered
Select web environments that will meet creative, production and technical requirements

Research web environments and analyse their potential

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Analyse how these web environments meet audience and content requirements

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Identify issues relating to delivery platform and standards, and determine how these may affect web environment options

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Consult relevant personnel to ensure that all possible web environment options are considered

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Select web environments that will meet creative, production and technical requirements

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Draft design specifications

Design the architecture of web environments to show interrelationship between environment components
Identify each web environment and specify its individual interactive features, functionality and navigation and its relationship to design as a whole
Identify content components and specify how these will be logically structured and integrated into and/or generated by web environments
Specify levels of access permissions to web environments as required
Specify media assets as required
Specify user interfaces of web environments
Specify production requirements, including appropriate testing strategies
Write draft design specifications to include all relevant advice to design and development teams
Discuss draft design specifications with client to ensure designs are consistent with project briefs

Design the architecture of web environments to show interrelationship between environment components

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Identify each web environment and specify its individual interactive features, functionality and navigation and its relationship to design as a whole

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Identify content components and specify how these will be logically structured and integrated into and/or generated by web environments

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Specify levels of access permissions to web environments as required

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Specify media assets as required

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Specify user interfaces of web environments

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Specify production requirements, including appropriate testing strategies

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Write draft design specifications to include all relevant advice to design and development teams

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Discuss draft design specifications with client to ensure designs are consistent with project briefs

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Review and confirm design specifications

Review designs against required project outcomes, as well as client and audience needs
Review designs to ensure they meet creative and technical requirements
Adjust designs as necessary after discussions with relevant personnel
Clarify legislative or ownership issues to comply with production and organisational requirements
Confirm with client acceptance of design specifications, including deliverables, milestones and timelines

Review designs against required project outcomes, as well as client and audience needs

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Review designs to ensure they meet creative and technical requirements

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Adjust designs as necessary after discussions with relevant personnel

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Clarify legislative or ownership issues to comply with production and organisational requirements

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Confirm with client acceptance of design specifications, including deliverables, milestones and timelines

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Instructions to Assessors

Evidence Guide


The Evidence Guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the performance criteria, required skills and knowledge, range statement and the Assessment Guidelines for the Training Package.
Overview of assessment
Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit	Evidence of the following is essential: design specifications for web environments that: are well documented and clearly presented meet client and audience requirements are technically feasible ability to work effectively as a member of a production team.
Context of and specific resources for assessment	Assessment must ensure: practical demonstration of skills through the design of web environments for at least two projects access to project briefs on which designs can be based access to appropriate learning and assessment support when required use of culturally appropriate processes and techniques appropriate to the language and literacy capacity of learners and the work being performed.
Method of assessment	A range of assessment methods should be used to assess practical skills and knowledge. The following examples are appropriate for this unit: direct questioning combined with review of portfolios of evidence and third-party workplace reports of on-the-job performance evaluation of designs for web environments documented by the candidate and of their effectiveness in terms of meeting project requirements observation of a candidate presenting his/her design for web environments to team members and explaining how it meets requirements written or oral questioning to test knowledge as listed in the required skills and knowledge section of this unit.
Guidance information for assessment	Holistic assessment with other units relevant to the industry sector, workplace and job role is recommended, for example: CUFDIG505A Design information architecture CUFPPM404A Create storyboards.

Required Skills and Knowledge

Required skills

communication, teamwork and literacy skills sufficient to:

interpret and clarify written proposals and creative briefs

work collaboratively in a team environment

present ideas for the design of web environments for discussion and feedback from team members

clearly and concisely document specifications for the design of web environments

initiative, enterprise and creativity in the context of:

generating ideas for the design of web environments

thinking laterally when developing concepts

undertaking background research into web environments

maintaining design integrity

finding solutions to problems encountered when designing web environments

finding ways to minimise the effect of technical constraints

ensuring there is an intuitive and logical flow to the navigation of web environments

technical skills sufficient to create storyboards, maps and other diagrams to specify the architecture and navigation of web environments

self-management skills sufficient to:

meet deadlines

provide appropriate and timely documentation

Required knowledge

industry knowledge, including:

roles and responsibilities of project team members, e.g. designers, content creators, information architects, programmers and coders

sequence and interrelationship of stages in the process of developing web environments

broad range of web applications and technologies

web design and its relationship to web optimisation strategies

web standards, including SCORM, usability, W3C Accessibility and interoperability

issues and challenges that arise in designing and developing web environments

typical formats and techniques for documenting the design of web environments

OHS standards as they relate to working for periods of time on computers

intellectual property rights and copyright clearance procedures

Range Statement


The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included.
Purpose may include:	business and corporate community education entertainment government information and news knowledge management personal promotion training.
Project requirements may include:	access to facilities and resources budget deliverables milestones personnel, including: number availability expertise prototyping technical issues, including: delivery platform disk space bandwidth testing plan timelines.
Audience characteristics may include:	computer literacy demographics, such as: age gender education occupation location cultural background hobbies interests internet literacy language, literacy and numeracy personas specific needs - physical or psychological.
Web environments may include one or combinations of:	audio streaming blog chat conferencing tool content learning management system (CLMS) content management system (CMS) database repository discussion forum dynamic website electronic newsletter interactive calendar interactive form learning management system (LMS) podcast RSS feed static website TiVo video streaming other online collaboration and social network tools.
Delivery platform may include:	digital television set internet mobile phone other wireless/mobile devices personal digital assistant (PDA).
Standards may include:	interoperability SCORM usability W3C Accessibility.
Relevant personnel may include:	art director client educator graphic designer head of department information architect instructional designer programmer technical director technical staff other specialist creative and administrative staff.
Media assets may include:	animation audio audio/visual files, such as PowerPoint graphics images text text documents, such as PDF and Word video.
Production requirements may include:	levels of expertise production deadlines production schedules production team production values testing strategies.
Testing strategies may include:	alpha beta completion continuous milestone prototype staged.
Design specifications may include:	content inventory diagrams flow charts maps navigation charts plans storyboards technical specifications user interface mock-ups wire frames.
Legislative or ownership issues may be:	access and equity clearances confidentiality copyright intellectual property rights non-disclosure agreements open source licensing ownership of assets product licensing.

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Evidence Guide: CUFDIG502A - Design web environments

Student: __________________________________________________

Signature: _________________________________________________

Tips for gathering evidence to demonstrate your skills

CUFDIG502A - Design web environments

Determine project requirements

Research and select web environments

Draft design specifications

Review and confirm design specifications

Assessed

Teacher: ___________________________________ Date: _________

Signature: ________________________________________________

Comments:

Instructions to Assessors

Teacher: ___________________________ Date: _