Prototyping Weeknotes #17 (04/06/10)
We start the week catching up and planning and setting up for demos for the afternoon. The Digital Programme Guide team meet with Fraser and Brian from UX&D to discuss developing a version of the Digital Programme Guide in HTML5 for other devices. Akua and Tony head off to the shops to look for some toys to use for the Digital Friendship prototype. They come back with a monkey, an elephant and a sewing kit. The afternoon is spent with our sister team in Audience Experience exchanging ideas and demonstrating projects.
The Digital Programme Guide team have decided to focus on a small, straightforward set of features for the first release, focusing on navigation and the data. Chris B is building this using the standard iPad UI toolkit. It might not be the way we go eventually but it should be quickest to help us start learning. Theo’s busy with wireframes, service maps and layouts for the build. We want to get this in front of users for internal testing as soon as possible.
Tony’s scoping his own project for some of his time, it’s to be a small remote camera for hard-to-reach places in studios. Right now he’s looking into what exists as whole systems and as components. Vicky’s scoping project Big Fan, we’ll have a meeting next week to decide what we do on it and when. Wednesday afternoon is spent with , a design and strategy agency, talking about our process and looking at tools and techniques for prototyping. Sam is off to P2P-Next meetings in Hamburg next week so he’s preparing and building a new LIMO prototype and exploring some remote control ideas with project partners.
Last thing on Thursday Chris N and Duncan run an end-to-end test for the Digital Friendship system. No authorisation yet but they can swipe devices, dock them, post data to the social network and create friendships. Chris is now looking at adding service provider functionality to simplify the authentication process for the user. But we’re also wondering if we should use as it might have better flows for the device and application authorisation. Up in the Manchester office Tony is operating on the monkey and the elephant to transplant the various electronic components into them.
Friday. We agree on a final scope for the first release of the Digital Programme Guide - listings, now & next, programme information and maybe some search - and estimate a couple of weeks for this to be done. Sean’s now taking over the API development so Chris can concentrate on the iPad development and Theo’s design cycles are converging on something. Meantime Sean’s been fixing the odd bug that has come up on the Zeitgeist prototype during its soak testing, and documenting the project. Now we’re now just waiting for approval before we can launch that.
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