PERSONAL TRAINER, INC.

Personal Trainer, Inc., owns and operates fitness centers in a dozen Midwestern cities. The

centers have done well, and the company is planning an international expansion by opening

a new “supercenter” in the Toronto area. Personal Trainer’s president, Cassia Umi, hired an

IT consultant, Susan Park, to help develop an information system for the new facility.

During the project, Susan will work closely with Gray Lewis, who will manage the new

operation.

Background

Following the decision to use an in-house team to develop a design prototype, Susan

began to work on the physical design for Personal Trainer’s new information system. At this

stage, she is ready to begin working with Gray on the output and user interface design.

Together, Susan and Gray will seek to develop a user-centered design that is easy to learn

and use. Personal Trainer users will include managers, fitness instructors, support staff, and

members themselves.

1. Create a detail report that will display all Personal Trainer courses in alphabetical order, with the course name and the instructor name in a group header; the Social Security number, name, and telephone number of each current student in the detail section; and the student count in a group footer.

2. Create a switchboard design with control buttons that lead to members, fitness instructors, activities and services, schedules, and fitness class rosters. Allow a user to add, update, or delete records in each area.

3. Suggest context-sensitive and specific Help for the switchboard and lower-level menus and forms. Prepare storyboards that show the proposed screens. Also suggest at least six types of data validation rules for data entry screens.

Data validation

• Simple range validation 
• Constraint validation
• Code validation
• Cross-reference validation
• Structured validation
• Data-type validation

4. Design a mail-in source document that members can use to register for fitness classes. Also design a Web-based registration form.