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DreamBig

DreamBig is a new product innovation driven by the School of IT at Deakin. DreamBig aims to provide a personalised roadmap integrated with Ontrack to support students to develop their professional identity across their course and improve their employability after graduation. In addition, it aims to provide a platform to help set realistic expectations for students graduating into the real world. In line with this vision, it is proposed to build a prototype that can help achieve the following goals:

  • Multi-dimensional visualisation of each student's growing professional identity
  • Used within curriculum to encourage engagement.
  • Scaffolds reflections on industry-readiness
  • Increases awareness of important milestones and dates for graduate recruitment and internships
  • Customised paths for career starters, career changers and career advancers.

Product Lead: Neha Makineni

Prototype Technical Team

Overview, Goals, and Objectives

DreamBig is at its early inception. The customer needs and product requirements are gradually discovered and refined. The Prototype Technical project is an attempt to explore the technicality and possibility of the features discovered by the design team. The process includes determining Backend API functionality and preparing frontend pages to prove that, identifying underserved customer needs, UML diagram for backend DB design, database, specifying the MVP feature set, building, and testing small build components of the prototype with the customers.

Aims for Trimester

Research will be conducted to investigate finalised frontend components and design the backend for them and prioritise high-value features. These will form the minimum viable product (MVP). As part of this work, the following will be established:

  • Documentation of app developments
  • Research and analysis on prototype backend functionality
  • Focusing on connecting frontend to backend upon design conformation
  • Complete technical prototype incorporating above analysis

Deliverables

Short-term

  • Automated database seeding to allow for testing and demonstration purposes
  • Research a QA process to be followed when developing new features

Long-term

  • Build frontend pages that deliver DreamBig planned functionality
  • Ensure all aspects of DreamBig app have been unit tested
  • Create e2e tests for DreamBig

What we achieved this trimester

  • Detailed Entity Relationship Diagram of backend DB design
  • Documentation on how to setup DreamBig app using Docker
  • Frontend pages that prove backend API functionality
  • Implementation of the DreamBig star component

Project Members (4)

Delivery Lead: Linden Hutchinson

Software Developers: Norbert Pop, Way Yan Min

Technical Documentation Specialist: Xue Ting Jing

Design Team

Overview, Goals, and Objectives

DreamBig Frontend design is at its early inception. The customer needs and product requirements are discovered and are being refined at every step. The Prototype Design project is an attempt to explore the product-market fit. The process includes re-determining our target customer, identifying underserved customer needs, defining the product value proposition, specifying the MVP feature set, building, and testing design the prototype with the customers.

Aims for Trimester

Research will be conducted to investigate customer needs and prioritise high-value features. These will form the minimum viable product (MVP). As part of this work, the following will be established:

  • Work on the UI design for every features
  • Work on the UX design for application
  • Documentation on simple and clear design

Deliverables

Short-term

  • Complete high quality design documentation to communicate design concepts.

Long-term

  • Keeping updating any users prefer features and UI.

What we achieved this trimester

  • Finishing wireframes update and high-quality model.
  • Complete a good quality UI/UX design prototype incorporating above analysis.

Project Members (6)

Delivery lead: Harry Liu

UI&UX designer: Adam Sawczuk, Josephine Hannah, Junhua Ma, Monica Valentina Tasmin, Wei Min Voon

DreamBig Documentation and Quality Assurance Team

Overview, Goals, and Objectives

DreamBig Frontend design is at its early inception. The customer needs and product requirements are discovered and are being refined at every step. The Prototype Documentation and QA project is an attempt to explore and build a standard structured framework of documentation and QA processes. The process includes and testing of design/technical prototype with company standards.

Aims for Trimester

Research will be conducted to investigate possible structure and frameworks for documentations and QA testings. These will form the minimum viable product (MVP). As part of this work, the following will be established:

  • Build a framework for documentation and QA testing
  • Completed aligning the previous documents to the new framework
  • Work on QA testing for existing design features and wireframes and keep doing the same for the work that will be completed in the project going forward

Deliverables

Short-term

  • Once the build of design prototype is done do the required testing
  • Once the build of technical prototype (backend, frontend, API, database) is being built, do regular testing to see if they are produced according to company standards

What we achieved this trimester

  • Complete research and trials of new frameworks for documentation and QA
  • Test the framework with new documentation and features for QA Long-term
  • Finish converting previous documentation according to the new framework

Project Members (5)

Delivery lead: Neha Makineni

Technical writers: Alicia Threatt, Ashar Kamal

Quality Assurance testing specialists: Gurpreet Kaur, Tiomothy Davies