Honor Flight works to fly veterans to Washington DC so they can reflect together at their memorials. For this project, our team created a standalone web-based subsystem Honor Flight staff and veterans can use when they are traveling with the company. The subsystem serves as an aid that informs veterans and staff about which bus to take, provides medical information about the veterans, highlights events that are occurring, and offers other helpful tools that veterans and staff may need during the trip.
The Problem:
The current software that was being used by the honor flight staff was outdated and not intuitive to use. There were situations where veterans would not be able to find their bus, or staff would be unable to figure out how to find medical information on a specific veteran.
The Solution:
We created a new mobile-friendly web based application that simplified the goals that the Honor Flight staff wanted to accomplish. The new user interface proved to be easy to use by both the veterans and the staff.
Project Goals:
- Aid Honor Flight members and staff in managing personnel during sponsored events.
- Create a mobile-friendly web based application for staff to use during Honor Flight events.
- Bring convenient access to information to Honor Flight staff members.
- Include a user interface that is simple to navigate and easy to use.
High Level Description:
We created a standalone web based application for both medical personnel and the veterans in the group. Some of the provided information can only be accessed by certain users, so we created a role-based authorization as well. Staff can easily edit information available to all members in the event complications arise or plans change.
High Level Requirements:
- The Electronic Bus Book must have up-to-date information accessible from mobile devices.
- A user should be able to click on a link or a tab on a form to see a “page” in the Electronic Bus Book.
- Medical information for the veterans must be available at all times on a health and safety volunteer’s phone.
- Medical information will be organized by bus and team. Staff will have the ability to bring up all of the information about a specific veteran or a group of veteran for statistical information.
- The application must have various levels of access for users, using role-based authorization.
- Information should be easy to edit and database centric.
First, we listed out the different requirements for the project.
We also listed out the project risks as well as methods for handling those issues, should they arise.
Then, we created some basic user flows to better understand what the average user would do with the application.
Next, we listed some detailed models of the project security/architecture.
Soon after, we constructed basic wireframes to understand what the application could look like.
Finally, we met with the sponsors who provided us with feedback on the designs. We then made detailed views of all of the pages within the application.
