Diseño e implementación de una red social en tiempo real basada en el diseño centrado en el usuario

Abstract

[en] User-centered design is a philosophy that aims to place the user at the center of the design in order to meet his needs and improve his experience. In this project this method will be used to design a social network. A complete iteration of the user-centered design will be performed. For this, first, a research phase will be carried out where the ideal user profile will be defined and social networks will be analyzed to obtain similarities. From the inquiry, scenarios will be defined and the users will follow them to provide information of gaps in the interaction with the system. Secondly, the sketches will be designed and analyzed using Nielsen’s heuristics and finally a high-fidelity prototype will be designed. Based on the prototype, user tests will be carried out in order to detect usability problems and then design the social network. To design the social network, on the backend, Django and a set of modules will be used to add new functionalities. In particular, Django Channels will be used for real-time communication and Django Rest Framework will be used to design an Application Programming Interface (API) Rest. Two types of databases will be used, a REmote DIctionary Server (Redis) memory database and a My Structured Query Language (MySQL) database. The first database will store static templates and allow the exchange of messages between users and the second database will have the information of the social network data tables. On the frontend, to design the interfaces, Bootstrap and the jQuery library will be used to give dynamism to the elements and make modifications in the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) document. Users will receive emails and these will be adaptable and intuitively designed to adapt to any screen resolution.