Feedback

Overall we thought the crit went well

A few comments we got were questions on how the To Do List works.
- Ryan / Mauri thought having it come down from the top might be confusing with existing iPhone notifications.  This was something we thought about and Ben made sure the swipe-able area was larger and far enough down the screen to not matter so much. In saying that, Ryan suggested coming from the bottom might make more sense as we had the most recent item viewable, this would mean it didn’t have to re-order.  I think we’ll need to have a group chat about this.

Will of Steel (Kah / Byron’s feedback)

Student productivity / well-being application that includes a task list and break management system.

Feedback:

Visuals: Good to see the progression and experimentation with the application visual. A few mockups of what the website might look like would’ve been appreciated. Perhaps the frame of the visuals could tie in closer to the blue? Or the frame can change hue dependent on the visual theme?

Technical: Good work on the local and push notification. It’s to bring all the disparate elements together into a single application. Right now the app transitions between views only in one direction, perhaps you could make that swipe interaction tie in to the transitions better?

Concept: I would consider an additional tab for the tasks page. That means you will always have either the most recent or most important task displayed on the main screen of the app, rather than long list (even 2 or 3 tasks takes up a lot of screen real estate). The task screen could help with setting a priority and a date of completion for the app as well.

As for notifications – be very, very careful that the application doesn’t cross the boundary from useful to annoying.

Visuals wise – We ideally aimed to have a mock up for the crit but it’s been a busy week for all of us.  Ben is working on this now.

We’ll have a chat about how to incorporate the colour scheme into the frame also.

Technical wise we seem to be on track for the locally run app Nicky is going to work on the settings and I wil get the to do list working.  We’ve allowed time to integrate the push notifications but this is definitely time dependent based on how many issues we have with getting our minimum viable product working.

Right now were going to try get all the technical things work and then work on the transitions between the pages and the styling

Notifications – there was concern expressed on the app being naggy.  This is something we’ve had a lot of discussion about and we’ve talked to classmates about it too.  We think this is a matter of user testing as now that we’ve got the notifications working, it’s relatively simple to change the timers on them.