Category: <span>Application</span>

Application architecture

A computer-based system should have as a primary resource a design or architecture of its structure. According to [1], an architecture is “any well defined form of a system’s essential, unifying structure defined in terms of components, connections and constraints along with the system’s interaction with its environment”. The architecture helps …

Use Cases

Our use cases for the Aura system follow some principles outlined by James Rumbaugh and co-authors in The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual (Second Edition). The authors suggest drawing use cases to represent functionalities of a system that requires human-machine interaction.The people, and sometimes external systems or processes, are classified as actors …

Mockups

To have a general idea of how Aura application will be, we designed some mockups to illustrate the main pages on the website. We decided on a simple and elegant layout inspired by Apple’s style. This is just a preliminary design, which can be modified later if necessary. See also …

Application sitemap

The sitemap of Aura is simple with just a few pages since it is not a social network itself, but a platform that aggregates content from other sources, analyses it and shows some visualizations. Below, you can find the hierarchy of pages that will be found on the application. The main ones …