You have been hired as a systems analyst to design an e-commerce website. The website offers merchandise across three broad categories: men, women, and kids. Each of these is further categorized into apparel, footwear, accessories, and so on. At specific times, the website hosts stock clearance sales, during which the entire website’s products are on sale for a short duration, like three to four hours, at discounted prices. In addition, it has been found that customers browse for a complete wardrobe look, pairing dresses with footwear and accessories that match. The website has thus now introduced a “pair preview” feature based on the selection of products by a customer.

a. Identify the processes involved in the design and development of such a website.

b. Do you think the principle of partitioning is applicable to the design of this system? Justify your answer.

c. As the design includes a lot of human–computer interaction, how would it meet the usability and usefulness criteria?