Week 10

Today we're back from break and boy have some strides been made. I got the newspaper search functionality completed over the break so we have a major section of trove functionality working perfectly. Well almost perfectly but pretty close!

We do need to work on making it search via the date selected as well but thats a problem for another time!

Week 9

Fairly quiet week in week 9. We mainly looked at bug fixing some of the trove functionality to get it working as well as we could. There seems to be a lot of issues getting Trove to work perfectly every time. This problem is probably the biggest issue we face at the moment :/

We did get the chance to do our second group presentation today. While lacking some core functionality we did well overall. The site works well enough to be passable.

Week 8

I think I missed the window for this post but oh well, better late then never right?

Back in week 8 we had a bit of work to do after the paper prototype. After using a semi working technical demo instead of a paper prototype we had a lot of good feedback to work on. We tried to focus on this feedback and brainstormed ideas on how to solve some of the problems that came up.

One interesting piece of feedback was that a lot of people were confused about how to use the app correctly. After creating something yourself its very easy to get lost in the mindset that your creation is perfect in every way and doesn't need changing. While I don't think that was our thought process, we might have been heading down that path. To combat the learning curve, we decided we would put in some information boxes that users could click on to see what they needed to do. Our hope is that these information windows will solve any learning issues new users might experience.