Generally, one doesn’t have to look too far in most organizations to find a poorly designed source document or data input screen, or both. Contact a nonprofit or similar type of organization and volunteer to review their forms and data input screens, and to redesign one or two of them.

a. Describe the organization for which you did the volunteer work.

b. Did you find any design problems in either the source documents or the input screens?

Describe the design problems.

c. Describe the source document and/or input screen that you redesigned. Include a sample if possible.

d. What changes did you make, and what process did you follow in making the changes? Include a sample.

e. What challenges did you face in redesigning the form and/or screen?

f. Was the organization pleased with your redesign? Is it using the new form and screen?