Varför står det stridsvagnar på Gotland?
En fallstudie om en hotbilds konstruktion och genomslag.
IKEA HaparandaTornio employ some two-hundred people in its furniture retail store.Keeping track of staff statistics and employee information has previously been achievedthrough the use of a basic Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheet. The store?s human resourcesdepartment requested an upgrade to this system with the hope of speeding up andsimplifying the administrative process, as well as to make it easier to monitor HR-relatedtarget statistics. The following report documents the development process of that upgrade ascarried out by the author. The project draws on research in usability design and cognitivepsychology to develop a user-friendly interface. Particular focus has been put on featuresrelated to the administration of employee information, including adding, editing anddeleting personnel entries, as well as a clean and informative statistical interface. The resultis an Excel-based information system that uses VBA programming to achieve said goals.The vast majority of planned features were implemented, although some were revised orscaled-down due to limitations in Excel. Overall the project goal was reached, but work willcontinue in order to enhance the final result.