Weekly Status

The purpose of the group project is to develop a design document for redesigning Professor Jeff Sonstein's 4004-737 Website Design & Technology course webiste. The design document would be based on the webmonkey Information Architecture tutorial.

Update for Week 6:

Posted on Friday, Jan.25, 2012

• As per the discussed design scenarios, color themes were browsed from kuler
• Wireframes and mockups were created, tested and iterated
• Axure software was used to make wireframes and mockups
• The final design documented was presented to the class on Wednesday 25th Jan, 2012
• The design looked good in the class and the team thanked each other by having pancakes and coffee :D

Update for Week 5:

Posted on Friday, Jan.17, 2012

• Group meetings were held to discuss about the design document
• The webmonkey tutorial site being down, already taken print outs were shared
• Each person in the team contributed his and her design ideas and shared different aspects of the webmonkey tutorial
• The team progressed towards making a constant web-based prototype for the Design Document
• Each team member was asked to handle one responsibility as per his/her skills and interests
• A basic layout of the site was formed and everyone worked on their individual parts to pull up the site
• Each shared his/her work in the end and meetings were held to refine/improvise wherever needed
• Keen thoughts were given to the personas, audience requirements and goals
• Finally after much brainstromed ideas a final design for the site was structured

Update for Week 4:

Posted on Friday, Jan.11, 2012

• Readings assigned to everyone in the group
• Web Monkey tutorials to be read by everyone
• Everyone comes up with a design idea for the course website and brainstroms
• Reading and finalizing about Personas, Design decisions and workflows
• Brainstorming ideas about IE stuff and whether to exclude it because it doesn't support HTML5
• Team will meet this weekend to start with actual design document and finalize on the content and personas

Update for Week 3:

Posted on Friday, Dec.16, 2011

• Group talked about each other's interests, passions and strengths
• Decided on everybody's roles in the group
• Interactions and group hangouts
• Ready for the winter break. Wooh!