Global Context: Globalizations and Sustainability
Key Concept: Creativity
Related Concept: Function, Innovation
AK Strand: Economics for Development :- Understand the diversity of trends in economic thinking by studying the work of thinkers from different times and places.
The creative artistry is function of an innovative designer.
Factual
What is E-Commerce?
What is innovation?
Conceptual
How do E-Commerce impact our lifes?
What makes E-Commerce successful?
Debatable:
Is E-Commerce the future?
Digital life
Virtual environments and the Information Age
Systems
In this era of information technology or what is popularly known as the information age, Information is what sells the most. Electronic Commerce E-Commerce which is the selling and buying of goods and services over the internet has taken over. Many people purchase their goods and services over E-Commerce giants such as Amazon, Alibaba, Netflix, etc. Many people, small and medium enterprises SMEs, and big businesses involved in E-Commerce have been able to realize their vision and mission through the communication of information (such as those on types of goods sold, prices of the goods sold, human resources, future plans, and others) to its target audience through the use of websites.
Your task for this unit is to identify a client or a target audience within your local community that is in dire need of an IT solution ( a website) for their E-Commerce operations. You shall research into the client's/ target audience problem and through the use of creative skills develop an IT solution in the form of a website to address the client's/ target audience need.
All the four Criteria (Criterion A, B,C, and D) of Digital Design shall be applied to assess this particular task.
N/B: Those who will code their website from scratch using HTML and CSS will get higher marks in Criterion C. Note that the emphasis is on a range of technical skills. So your website should incorporate videos, images, animations and others.