Social implications A digital ____ can affect different social ____ in different ways. Social groupings can be considered in terms of ____, age, ____, ____ ____, socio-economic status, and more. You need to ensure your digital outcome avoids ____ anyone, mis-____ a social group or ____ people. Your outcome should appeal to all social groups, if possible. It should also be ____ for the organisation it represents and for the target users. Cultural Will all cultures be treated fairly by your outcome? If you use other ____, ensure they are used appropriately and use the correct spelling, including macrons for Māori text? If you are using imagery from a minority culture, are you doing so ____? Will your outcome show or say anything that is ____ in some cultures? Obtaining ____ from people of different ____ backgrounds to yourself can provide unexpected insights. Legal Will your outcome obey all relevant ____? These might include the ____ Act, the ____ Act, or ____ laws. For example, make sure your digital outcome doesn’t make ____ allegations, ____ a person’s ethnic origin or sexual orientation, contains no ____ information and contains no ____ that you don’t have ____ to include. Ethical Is it ____? Is it ____? As designers and developers, it’s important that our products don’t cause ____ to anyone. Make sure that your digital outcome doesn’t ____ users, encourage ____ choices, and isn’t ____ or pornographic. Another ethical implication is ensuring that you only claim your original work as your own, crediting the owner or author of any other content. Privacy As digital designers, we often have access to other people’s ____, images or personal information. There are strict laws governing the storage and use of personal information in NZ. Think about how you will keep other people’s personal information ____ and ____. For example, if you are using images of other people in your website, do you have their permission? If your database contains private addresses, are these kept hidden from other users? Accessibility When we make a digital outcome we should ensure most users can access it. This includes people who need to use different screen-sizes or devices, people with ____ or ____, and any other group in our community that may have ____ needs. "The UN Convention on the Rights of ____, which New Zealand has ratified states that we must recognise 'the importance of accessibility to the ____, ____, ____ and cultural environment, to health and education and to information and communication, in enabling persons with disabilities to fully enjoy all human rights and fundamental freedoms." (Be. Accessible) Usability While designing your digital outcome you will think about what your users need ____ and how to help them do this. For example you may consider how the user inputs text into a text box and whether you can make this ____ for them using ____ and a large, visible input box. In year 11 you may have learned about human-computer interaction(HCI) and usability heuristics. These are ideas and ‘____’ you can follow to make the use of your outcome easier for users. Functionality You will need to think about how well your outcome will do what it is supposed to do, and what you can do to ensure that it ____ as intended. This could include how ____ a website loads, whether there are bugs in your code, or whether your outcome ____ on all devices. It’s good to think about specific things when you are investigating the functionality of your digital outcome. For example, rather than just deciding it functions well, you can be more specific and say that the links ____, or the error messages ____ the ____ clearly and ask the user to try again, or the database query displays the correct results, or that the images are ____ and in proportion. Aesthetics Aesthetics is all about the ____ and ____ of your outcome. When you design a digital outcome, it helps to be aware of ____ for the type of product you are making and what you can do to ensure that it appeals to your target audience. It is good if you can recognise and explain what it is that makes an item attractive. You may be able to conduct ____ among your target audience to gather ____ about how you can create an aesthetically ____ product. You may want to meet aesthetic requirements by using a harmonious ____ scheme, designing balanced ____, and using a particular font to support the ____ of your product. Sustainability and future proofing Isn’t it annoying when we need to buy a new phone because the old one won’t ____ the latest and coolest apps? It’s not much use designing items that are no longer usable a year later (although manufacturers and shopkeepers might disagree!). It’s important to design products that can be kept up to ____. If your outcome is software, you should arrange the code in such a way that changes and ____ can easily be made by other programmers later on. Code comments will help other developers understand and edit your code in the future. If it’s a website you might want to set your menu up in such as way that you can easily add pages later on. Using current coding languages and conventions is another way of ____ your outcome. End-user considerations The most beautiful outcome in the world is no use if it doesn’t meet its ____ because your users find it ____ to use! Think about how to ensure that your outcome does what the ____. For example will it use language at a suitable reading level for your users? Will it appeal to the right ____? Will it be available on the devices that your target audience uses? Will it be easy for users to ____? Health and safety Think about how you can make sure your outcome will be free from anything that could potentially ____ your users. For example, a 3D-printed item with small parts that could come loose is not safe around babies. A website should be free from any text that encourages users to do anything ____ or ____. Mental health is an important aspect of health and safety. Think carefully about text and images in your outcome, and if in doubt check it out with an expert.

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