ECS Lab Inventory System App
Description
ELISA - ECS Lab Inventory System App
ELISA is a lab inventory managing system for ECS (Engineering and Computer Science)
at Seattle Pacific University
September 2022 - June 2023 (9 months)
My Role
UX/UI Designer
Front-end Developer
Why we built?
We started this project for our senior software engineering project at Seattle Pacific University.
The current lab inventory managing system does not satisfy the users' needs:
the Lab Coordinators are not able to track the inventory items, and students are not able to reserve
a device or inventory in advance.
Realizing this is a real-world problem, we take the opportunity to improve the current
system while implementing some features that help users to utilize the resources.
Problem Statements and Challenges
Problems
Students are not able to reserve equipment
Limited reporting
Admins could not keep track of the items
Admins need to use a different website to generate a QR code
170
kinds of devices
5-25
devices of each kind
40-700
dollars for each device
Solution
Reservation Feature
QR Code Generators
Inventory Reporting
Updating the Status of Equipment
Equipment Information
RFID Technology
UI Design
Low fidelity wireframes
High fidelity wireframes
LOGIN PAGE
Admins or staffs will log in using their school domain email
DASHBOARD
Users can see some short reports or summaries of the inventory: the current week overview, each week during a school quarter, or each quarter during a year.
INVENTORY INFORMATION
A whole list of the current inventory items, including name, tag, location, and some detailed information.
The status of the item can be changed manually.
C-R-U-D is implemented to help users interact with the list
STORAGE TRACKING
Each available item is located at a designated storage location. To remove that item away from its location, it must be reserved.
RFID technology will be implemented to track if an item is being taken away from its place without being reserved.
Add New Item
When adding a new inventory item to the system, a QR Code will be generated, photos are include, and the designated location will also be assigned
TECHNOLOGY STACK
Front-end
ReactJS
Bootstrap
HTML/CSS
Back-end
NodeJS
API Gateway
AWS Lambda
Amazon DynamoDB