Main Window
The main window of the :Just What You Ordered; program has the following structure:
Since people tend to using different operating systems, the main window will be a
standard window depending on the operating system that users use. For example, if users
are Windows Operating System lovers, their window will look as follow: close, minimize,
maximize and restore buttons on the top right-hand side of the window.
Also, users will have the option to access their postal code, their country and city,
their distance about their location and restaurants as well as style of the restaurants.
This will be for the basic search of restaurants. Also, there will be a bar that users
can hide it or unhide depending of users needs. This bar will contain the following
options: My Favourite which would allow users to add to a list their favourite restaurant;
in that way users would not need to search again for those restaurants. Users will have
the option of History button which would allow users to see what was the kind of restaurants
that they were looking for. Also, users would have the option to access to the most wanted
restaurant in the database. Finally, users would have the option of the Community button
to access to talk to people about specific restaurant. This Community option will be in color
red if users are offline indicating that they can not access to that option, otherwise will
be color yellow.
When users use the basic search they will have the list of restaurant on the left-hand side
of the screen listed by name. This list would contain name of restaurant, rating, map, reviews
and menu. The rating part would be indicating by stars or red pepper indicating that if a
restaurant has many stars or red peppers, it will mean that this restaurant has been chosen
by many people.
Finally at the bottom of the page there will be a list of numbers indicating the following
page which users can access to by pressing each number or by pressing the next option which
will show them the next page.
This is the conceputal art of the main window design.
The menu of My Favorites,History..etc is able to be hidden by clicking the "->" button right beside it.
This bar will be shown instead of the orginal menu when the user clicked to "hide" the menu.
Advanced Search
The advanced search window would look as the same as the main window, but with more option
to users in order to limited their search. For example, the advanced search will have the
option of transportation which will allow users to choose between a restaurant that is closed
to users in order to walk. Or user can choose the option of car or bus which mean that users
prefer restaurant which are not closed to their home and they want to take bus or drive.
Also, the advanced search will have the option of what type of food users prefer such as
Mexican, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, and Greek and so on. User will have the option to choose
restaurant according to price such as Moderate price, Economic, and Expensive. Also, users
will have the option of what kinds if restaurant they want, for example; bar, restaurant-bar,
fast food restaurant and so on. Finally, users will have the option of looking for restaurant
according to their rating.
Login Window
The login window will be really simple, this window will contain to buttons where on
will be for users or regular customer and the other one will be for owners or restaurant.
The user button will allow users to access to the database and find a specific restaurant.
On the other hand, the owners・ button will allow owners of restaurant to make changes in
menu, prices, and so on. Also, owners will have the option to see statistics about their
restaurant that will indicate how many people have accessed to their restaurant.
This is the conceptual art of the Login buttons.
Owner Window
The purpose to design an owner window is to allow restaurant・s owners to do the following
actions. For example, owner will have on the left-hand side of the windows the following
functions; Change which will allow users to change specific information about their
restaurant. Statistics option will allow users to see how many people have access their
restaurant information. Also, owners will have the option of Remove which will allow them
to remove their restaurant from the database if they desire or remove any anomalies in
their restaurant・s information.
Moreover, the owner window will have a text box which will be located at the center of the
window. This text box will provide users the ability to add information while they are
doing any change. Finally, another characteristic about this window is that owner will have
a login name and a password in order to access to the database. This will give more security
to owners since any one will be allow to access to the database without their password and
the login name.
This is the conceptual art of the Owner page after the log in.
Font of Window
In most cases, type of font, size, color and some other features that a font might have,
they are affecting how effiency a user gather information from the description page.
As a designer of the :Just What You Ordered; system, we thought of some tips to
help user setting their own style of font. This helping system will work as following:
In the beginning, we provide a default setting for all section's font.However, through out the
setting process by user, our system will monitor the format and usage for such format.
For example, if user is trying to adjust the title or name of their restaurant,
when they pick a font size smaller than our standard setting, we will provide a warning to
the user about this case.
Otherwise, there is always the freedom to creat their own style of description.
Color of Window
As well as font rule, we thought about some color rule, however; users do not have the
possibility to change certain specific colors. The color rules are as follow:
-The Background of the "program" will be always white.
-The name of the restaurant will be gold and the description of the restaurants
will be black as default setting.
-The number of pages at the bottom of the window will be gold as well, but it will
change to red whenever users have visited the specific pages.
-The rating system will be a little different since it is by "icon" instead of characters
,therefore it is all depends on what type of restaurant it will be.
for example a spicy food restaurant will be using red peppers, and a seafood restaurant maybe using
a shrimp or some other similar icons. And our system will be providing all possible choice for
such purpose.
-The map characters be representing by icons as well, and also we will have all sort of different
icon for choosing.
-The menu icon which is symbolized as an opened book will be white with some black lines as default setting.
-Basic text which will appear on the window, will be in black color.
With our program's assiste, we hope to give the user maximium creativity while providing an efficency
description page for viewer.
A sample format that a description page may look like.
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