wirenotcable/asg2

Grocery

Grocery is an ecommerce website that allows users to purchase groceries and essential products, from the comfort of their homes.

Site Deployment: Click here

Design Process

For E-Commerce Website:

We went with a simple lay-out to showcase the various features and products available on our store so that it is easy and intuitive for users to find and access the services that they are looking for. As for the colour scheme, we decided to go with green, white & grey as we wanted to use colours that were calm & soothing for the eyes of our users. Moreover, the colour green is often associated with grocery stores. Therefore, we found it apt to use it as part of our colour scheme.

For Fruits Slicer Game:

We went with a 2D (2-Dimensional) Pixelated game as we felt that it would be easy to design in a short frame of time. Moreover, upon testing out our game with various 2D and 3D layouts, we noticed that 2D pixelated images for the fruits seemed to fit well into the animation used for the explode function. Therefore, we went on to design our game completely in 2D pixel art.

User Stories:

• As a new customer, I want to be able to navigate through the website easily to find the products I am looking for.
• As a regular customer, I want to receive promotions or offers to reduce the cost of my purchases.

Wireframe:

Link to Wireframe: Click here

Pitch:

Link to Pitch: Click here

Features

Existing Features

• View Products

  To view available products in the store

• Cart

  To store products in a certain location before proceeding on to payment

• Search

  To search and find specific products using the name of a product or brand

• Category

  To filter out products based on category type for the ease of locating products

• Locate us

  To show the locations of our outlets so that customers can visit them

• Sign in / Sign up

  To creates accounts through which customers can experience offers and promotions

• Coin / Point system

  To reward customers with accounts for using our services, by providing them coins (each equivalent to a cent) to use as part of their payment

• Fruit Slicing Game

  To play and earn rewards that will be credited into the points system based on points scored

Features Left to Implement

• Products liked
• Admin Page
• Discounts & Offers
• Newsletters
• Feedback form

Technologies Used

• HTML

  The project uses HTML to construct the HTML document for the website.

• CSS

  The project uses CSS for styling the website

• JavaScript

  The project uses JavaScript to add functionality to the website.

• JQuery

  The project uses JQuery to simplify DOM manipulation.

• Restdb.io

  The project uses restdb.io to store details regarding aspects such as products & user accounts.

• Google Cloud

  The project uses Google Cloud to generate the API key for the map used in the About Us page.

Testing

1. Signing up as a new user

• Tried entering an invalid email address to check if the error message would appear
• Tried entering passwords that did not match for the create password and confirm password sections of sign up form to check if the error message would appear

2. Cart

• Tried adding a product to the cart and then removing it to check if the cart would be updated accordingly
• Tried adding a product to the cart and then changing the quantity to check if the cart would be updated accordingly
• Tried the pay button to check if the cart would be cleared
• Tried checking if the total price would be updated accordingly

3. Point system

• Tried checking if the total coins after signing up would be 100
• Tried checking the total coins would be updated accordingly after a purchase is made
• Tried checking the total coins would be updated accordingly after playing the fruit slicing game

4. Fruit Slicing Game

• Tried checking if the game would start when the play button is clicked
• Tried checking if the score would update everytime a fruit is sliced
• Tried checking if the game would end when the player runs out of lives
• Tried checking if the total coins would be updated accordingly after a score of >10 is obtained

Extensive testing (For each feature)

Link to Extensive testing: Click here

W3 Validator checks for HTML & CSS:

• HTML checker produced 1 error
• CSS checker produced 4 errors

Problems:

• RESTDB.io has a limit for the no. of requests per day. Therefore, data might not load if the limit has exceeded.
• Background of game might not fit properly on some devices depending on screen sizes.

Credits

Contributions

Xin Yin (Mainly Back-End)

• Database for user accounts and products
• JavaScript for everything other than search bar & locate us
• HTML & CSS for sign-in / sign-up page
• Assisted Karthik with HTML & CSS

Karthik (Mainly Front-End)

• HTML & CSS for everything other sign-in / sign-up page
• JavaScript for search bar & locate us
• README.md
• Assisted Xin Yin with JavaScript and Database

Content

• The names of products was copied from Fairprice

Media

• The images used for the products were obtained from Fairprice
• The images used for the fruits in the fruits slicing game were obtained from Itch.io

Acknowledgements

• We received inspiration for this project from Fairprice
• We received inspiration for this project from Mr. Web Designer
• We received inspiration for the sign-in / sign-up page from Online Tutorials
• We received inspiration for the cart page from codewithsadee
• We received inspiration for the slice game from Udemy and Fruits Ninja