Month: November 2020

#Week 9

It is almost the end of the term. Week 9 is kind of easy for me. For my other classes, I am done with most of my projects. Thus, I have 3 weeks to prepare for the final. This week, we submitted the Team Technology Prototype. Finally, we found that one of our team members has quite this course already. We remade our schedule and assign the rest of the tasks to each of us. This week, I have learned something new about database stuff because I am taking cs340 right now. I am able to give some help to my team by the things I just learned. I felt really good. I have two chances to practice the database stuff. Other than that, I have done the report part in the Team Technology Prototype and finished my gender mag report.

#Prototype

I am still working on my prototype page. I am learning Figma right now. I have to finish two of them. One is the upcoming appointment and another one is the friend list. I am new to make prototypes by Figma thus I have to get help from my team member a lot. Fortunately, my team members are kind. I learned a lot of things from them.

#Future Plan

We are launching our website on Github right now. We fixed sign in function and add the friend function. According to the test, everything is going well. We will still work on our prototype and get this done in the next week. Other than that, we will do a client meeting next week. That is how we are doing so far.

#Week 8

Times fly, It is almost the end of the term. I decide to take cs462 for next term. Other than that, I am thinking to take cs381, cs 444, and Wr 222. I think the next term will be really rough for me. For this week, we just did a peer view of another team. I received a lot of useful advice from another team. We could see our shortage from their commend. We can also get good inspiration from their design document. It was really good experience to have peer view to different team.

My team and I decide to meet tomorrow to finish our final prototype and gender mag. After tomorrow’s meeting, there are only two gender mags left. Additionally, we will start to discuss the assignment due on Sunday. This is the plan so far.

#For the Class

The class is going well so far. I just hope I could meet my team members once. I knew the situation right now is difficult to have any meeting in real. However, it was really great to work with these guys. They are passionate and creative.

#Week 7

This is week 7 right now. We are done with the Team Design Document. Due to the team member’s change, we had to do extra works. This week we do not have a plan to do the third persona. I have to make an extra Figma prototype for the last two weeks. I am starting to learn about Figma on Youtube. The new use case will be texting to the vets and uploading the records to the database.

#Class Plan

Today is the first day to choose the class for the next term. I have a question about CS461. Do we have to pick Cs462 and Cs463 for the next two terms? If we did not choose the Cs462 and Cs463 for the next two term, will it affect my team member? These two are the quesitons I want to ask.

#Future Plan

We will keep doing use case test for the next week. Other than that, I will make a new prototype for the new use case. Keeping improving UI is the most important thing that we are working on right now. We will have a team meeting someday next week to discuss our next step and to determine that if all pages are satisfied with the requirements as well.

#Week 6

It is week 6. It is my sixth blog right now. My team and I were done with the second user test. This time, the persona had some experience with computers. Thus, it was easier to examine the use case for him. According to the user test, we are almost done with the prototype on Figma. We had a couple of pages to make an appointment, add data on, and record your own pets. On the top right corner, there are different buttons to switch the page which were very nice.

#Bad News

The bad news this week was, one of my team members was concerning to quit this term due to his personal reason. He said he will make a decision in the next few days. Before he makes a decision, he will try his best to help us to finish the things that we are working on. I want to know if we are facing this situation, what will happen to our team? Are we just going to finish the course by three of us?

#Next Week Plan

We are done with the prototype this week, so we will be working on the user interface and database part. We decide to make a warm and clean Ui that had an ash background color with some blue on the top. The database we decide to use firebase. That is what we going to do for the next week.

Week 5!

There a lot of things going on this week. I am taking many midterms. Thus, this week is heavy for me. Our team is doing the first user test this weekend. Everything was successful. We recorded the entire user test and filled out 3 sub-goals gm forms. However, we are still working on the user interface according to the user test. We hope to make it warm and simple. Therefore, the user who does not have experience with technology can still learn it and use it easily.

New tools!

Since I have learned React and decide to use it for our project. I did not notice there is another free and open-source CSS framework called bootstrap. After I watched the Youtube tutorial of it, it helps me a lot to build my front-end. Especially when I am setting up the CSS and javascript of the buttons and navigation, I just need to put a source link. I do not know if it is allowed in the cs461 class, but I was allowed in my Cs340 class.

Next Week Plan

We will be running the second user test next week and keep working on the user interface. I am done with persona this week, so I will be helping the team to build the user interface or the database part next week. I think each of my term members has a mind to make a good final project. All tasks are completed on time and uploaded the processing on the click up application. Hopefully, everyone has a good score on the midterm!☺