BLACKSBURG, Va., April 10, 2015 – This week was a productive week for the team Kool Katz, consisting of the three developers, Laura Avakian, Seth Canon, and Ryan Kiel. Kool Katz continued their development of the Civil War Driving Tour app.
Last week, Laura and Ryan were able to make progress setting up version control for their project and creating a skeletal design of the app on Xcode. Additionally, they came up with a solution that would satisfy the client and professor’s needs in that they would be implementing a running feed of comments with each individual site which is in the works.
This week, development continued for the skeleton of the app. The data entry of the tour sites and accompanying information, though a tedious task, is coming along. This will allow the developers to make sure the information is being properly presented on the different app screens.
The team was able to get the screen with list of tour sites working, which the user will be able to select each site from and potentially change up the list of sites to their personal liking. Additionally, the screen that loads the tour information was developed, and will need to be more extensively tested once the data entry task is complete.
Apart from the development, the team came up with an evaluation plan that will be executed in the next couple weeks when the high fidelity prototype is complete. This evaluation plan discusses a variety of questions, standards, and methods of surveying potential users that will give the developers a more in-depth understanding of what the development needs to be focused on.
For example, the team wants to make sure that users find the app to be straightforward and intuitive, and thus will evaluate how many times the user gets confused overall, and where.
“Right now we are in a really good place. Our high fidelity prototype is coming along nicely and accompanying it is a solid evaluation plan,” says Laura.
Next week, the team will continue development and will have a high fidelity prototype complete. The high fidelity prototype will be what allows the developers to further interview potential users about what they like and do not like about the app itself, and the evaluation plan will be executed in doing so. Stay tuned!
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