Sarah Sinclair's Individual Contribution Page

Again as a part of the Water Treatment Technology Selection Guide team, I will work to finalize the implementation of the results page, working closely with an Environmental Engineering teammate to implement coherent recommendation logic. I will finalize the CSS and design of the site, making any changes as necessary according to user feedback. I will enable the sharing of site results, and will work to make improvements in ease of use (e.g. fetching population growth rate based on country name).

Continuing on the Water Treatment Technology Selection Guide team, I will work worked to design and implement a cohesive results page for the recommendation web tool, crafting page content and performing iterative user testing. I will work to ensure the page can be seamlessly translated between languages, and I will contribute translating wireframes into a functional tool. I improved the mechanism by which data is passed between pages of the tool and worked to ensure all included fields were meaningful and fully functional. I contributed to ongoing work in the realms of style and functionality, and configured and deployed the site live to the AguaClara server.

As a part of the Water Treatment Technology Selection Guide team, I contributed to the development of an interactive tool which educates users about the different water treatment technologies available to them. I engaged in preliminary literature review surveying potential treatment options before designing the layout of a clean, modern, multi-page website built to provide treatment recommendations. I coded the stylesheets for the website in CSS, implemented form functionality using PHP and HTML, and worked to improve user interactivity with liberal use of JavaScript. Great consideration was given to minimizing user memory load and to making form inputs accessible to those without technical knowledge. I began preparations to deploy the site live on the AguaClara server, and worked to set up MySQL databases that will be used to log user input. Throughout the semester, I paid special attention to user experience, implementing features like parallax scrolling, maintained scroll position between pages, and pre-populated user inputs when users revisit site pages.

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