Overview

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For your Responsive Website Development and Design Specialization Capstone Project, you will create a complete, responsive, multi-user, data-driven website which aims to solve a particular problem. We encourage you to create a website addressing a problem that you are interested in! However, if you don’t have an idea of your own, we have several that we will suggest in the course. In the capstone project, you will: 1. Develop a complete website using the full range of skills learned during the specialisation 2. Work through a structured process from idea generation to product delivery 3. Document and receive feedback on the development of your project from an idea to a fully functional piece of software in a series of structured assignments including peer interactions Participation in or completion of this online course will not confer academic credit for University of London programmes.

Syllabus

What's the Idea?

Welcome to the first module of 'Responsive Website Development and Design Capstone!'. In this module you will define what the end point is for your project, brainstorm ideas about your project and conduct a SWOT analysis to clarify aspects of your ideas. In addition, you will define a target audience and list the 4 Ps: Price, Product, Place and Promotion. Finally, you will identify key resources needed for your project and will develop a high level project timeline.

Pitching your Idea

Welcome to the second module of 'Responsive Website Development and Design Capstone!'. By the end of this module, you will transition your idea from the abstract to the concrete, use process analysis to identify the main processes people can carry out in your application and identify primary and secondary processes. In addition, you will develop ideas about user experience through user journeys and describe processes as step by step procedures. Finally, you will be able to explain what an elevator pitch is.

Digitising the Idea

Welcome to the third module of 'Responsive Website Development and Design Capstone!' By the end of this module you will have, put your idea into a digital format, explained the purpose of a site skeleton and defined paths through your site skeleton. In addition, you will have made design wireframes for key pages in your application and developed ideas about the look and feel for your application.

Building the App I

Welcome to the fourth module of 'Responsive Website Development and Design Capstone!'. In this module you will describe the iterated project lifestyle, understand the purposes of backup and version control and list the reasons for using APIs. You will also share the experience of development and describe black box user testing using user pathways. Finally, you will use your digitised idea to create weekly tasks, carry out weekly reviews and use basic git and github functionality.

Building the App II

Welcome to the fifth module of 'Responsive Website Development and Design Capstone!'. This is the second module covering the app development process. As in the previous module, In this module you will describe the iterated project lifestyle, understand the purposes of backup and version control and list the reasons for using APIs. You will also share the experience of development and describe black box user testing using user pathways. Finally, you will use your digitised idea to create weekly tasks, carry out weekly reviews and use basic git and github functionality.

Presenting your project

Welcome to the final module of 'Responsive Website Development and Design Capstone!'.In this module you will list the typical components of a technical showcase, consider how to pitch a technical presentation and use the key processes from the design phase to demonstrate your software. Finally, you will explain the basics of user surveys and understand the value of user feedback.