Phase 2 · Activity Scenarios

Scenario 1

Ralph, a coach for a local high school football team, is preparing for the week's upcoming game against their fierce rivals with the winner going to the division championship game. Ralph pulls out his digital playbook and begins looking over his plays from the last couple of games. He sees several plays he would like to use for the coming game and adds them to the playbook. When he comes to the team's passing plays he realizes that some serious modifications will be needed for the opponent's defense.

Ralph sees several plays he wants to use as a template and pulls one of them up. He knows where the star defender of the team is most likely to play and highlights him on screen so that all the players will be able to see this when they study the plays for the week. Ralph then goes on Youtube and begins looking for videos of the specific play run by professional teams. After searching for a few minutes he finds the perfect video and embeds it into the play with the touch of a button. After modifying a few more plays he decides he wants to attempt to design a new play from scratch. The coach pulls up a blank template and arranges everything from the beginning. He cannot wait to test out the play at practice tomorrow. Having developed a provisional arm-band for the coming game, he decides it is time to push out the arm-band to the players to review. He hits the deploy button and all of the players receive a notification on their mobile device that a new arm-band has been deployed. The coach calls it a night and decides to go to bed.


This scenario went from the problem scenarios to an activity scenario by considering in depth how a user would use the product. The pros and cons of the problem scenario was considered and included in the scenario. The pros and cons of the claims' were consider when we thought of how a user would actually use the application and the desired roles he would seek to find in the program.

We specifically considered the role of a coach in this scenario since he would be a unique user in this application. The coach not only has to design plays but has to be able to easily deploy the plays as well to the team as a whole.

Scenario 2

John, the starting quarterback for a high-school football team, is studying new plays for the upcoming football game this weekend. He just received a new arm-band from his coach a few minutes ago. John remembers hearing about some star players on the opposing team and is anxious to figure out how they will fit into the plays. He opens up a new running play and sees the star defender clearly highlighted on the screen. He knows he has seen a similar play before and clicks the video tab to see if any videos have been attached. He is in luck. There's a video from last year's Super Bowl that clearly demonstrates this very play. John watches the play several times until he feels he has learned all of the key points.


In this scenario we considered how a quarterback would study for the week's game. We took the original problem scenario and modified it for use with our product. The pros and cons were considered throughout writing the scenario and are reflected within the pros and cons of the claims page.