Paper Prototype

Bad news, we didn't have a paper prototype. Our group member who was making our prototype had some substantial family problems and wasn't able to bring it in. All in all, we kinda understand why that's happened so it isn't a huge deal.

We scraped through for the lesson today by using a super early prototype to show people the basics of the website. It did what it needed to do and we got some great feedback based off what people saw, We're going to make some big changes to the UI based off this sometime soon.

One interesting thing I found was that a lot of people didn't notice our initial date slider at the bottom of the screen. Because we knew it was there we didn't realize that have a grey slider on a primarily grey background wasn't the best idea. Who knew right?

I'll be updating that to be a lot more noticeable so that everyone realizes its actually there and can be used.

Old UI:

New (Slightly) Updated UI:

Week 12 and 13

The last two weeks of the project were spent finalizing some of the features and fixing some bugs in the code. It kind of sucks not being able to write a whole lot about the last two weeks but this is how it is in the end.

On the final day I spent much of my time writing the final report for our group. During the lesson I spent almost the full two hours writing almost 1400 words in order to finalize the report. Other group members spent the last tutorial class fixing all the bugs.

We did have to put on our part of the classes trade show this class as well. This was very similar to the digital prototype week. Between writing sections of the report, we spent a lot of time showing off the final version of our project to the class. It did take away from practical time to work on both coding and report writing but overall it was nice to get some positive comments from our class mates.

Overall with the project finished, we achieved much of what we initially set out to do. Electory functions as a platform and achieves much of what we aimed for in the initial scope. We did miss some features of the website but unfortunately that was inevitable due to the group losing some members.

Week 11 - Digital Prototype!

This week we got to show off our digital prototype to the class. Because our group size is pretty small I spent the entire class showing off our prototype to other people in the class. As the class went on I got a lot better at explaining the entire concept (Sorry to the first people who got probably the worst explanation ever).

Overall it went pretty well. A lot of people seemed pretty impressed with the scope of the prototype and how functional it was in comparison to some groups. It's always nice to be praised for your efforts!

We did have a few issues that came up relating to user feedback. Small UI issues were brought up by a few people which we tried to fix with them. It really shows that you can never really have enough user feedback.

The tutors seemed pretty impressed with the prototype as well. It's nice that they are being supportive given the problems with members of our group leaving throughout the semester. Hopefully that sympathy flows through to the marking stage!