Thursday 2 July 2009

nearly ready for road-test

Jim Ready, Tom and I met today to look at Jim's latest work on the Genarrator platform. Below are the aspects we need to finalise before can go out for a road-test.
 
Functionality
 
1. Generic stage size should be 800 x 600
 
2. Users should be able to change the background colour of the stage.
 
3. Maybe have a grid/margins on the stage when creating the narrative.
 
4. Possibly save the site map, and display with the narrative once published (users could turn this on/off)
 
5. Make the information bar more prominent and use rollovers where needed.
 
6. Maybe adjust menu size to scale the width of the stage?
 
7. Video upload/converting (and have auto play and show player functionality)
 
8. Publish button (Maybe call it genarrate?)
 
9. Make sure the website is scalable.
 
10. Admin/account section (change password etc...)
 
11. Different permission of log in (user and admin)
 
Design/Visuals
 
1. Create icons for each functionality (Layering, Link, Text etc...)
 
2. Use graphic on homepage.
 
3. Make it look pretty!
 
Think that is all for now.
 
We are aiming for Monday 27th July deadline. We'll meet on that day to show the prototype and discuss the next stages of the project.