Renaissance:Prototyping

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Prototyping

The prototyping phase has been started on Friday, 12 June 2009. This phase is limited to six weeks and ends on July 24. Prototypes will be made public when ready.

Goal

Building a flexible framework for prototyping to test promising UI designs with real users.

Team

• Andreas Bartel (andba) - User Experience Tech Lead for Project Renaissance
• Andre Fischer - Developer
• Bernd Eilers - Developer
• Frank Loehmann (fl) - OpenOffice.org User Experience Project Lead

Progress

• Wed., 17 June: Daily status meeting
  • Prototypes have been checked in to version control system
  • Prototypes have been joined
  • Scrollbar shows button, snapping to sections and highlighting current choice (Bernd)
  • Document canvas shows color gradient (Andre)
  • Document/slide contains objects with limited functionality (Andre)
  • Control window to set window sizes (Andre)
  • ToDo:
    • Prepare a tabbed prototype (Andre)
    • Optimize scrolling of toolbar (Bernd)
    • Provide toolbar content as bitmaps (Frank)

• Tues., 16 June: Daily status meeting
  • Two separated Java based prototypes of a prototype presented
  • ToDo:
    • Add a control window so set prototype and window sizes
    • Join prototypes and extend sliding & document/canvas

• Mo., 15 June: Kick-off meeting with prototyping team
  • Using Java for prototyping
  • Create a modular prototype to be able to make different versions of a UI concept
  • Starting with sliding prototype
  • ToDo:
    • Set up prototyping framework (Andre/Bernd)
    • Slider implementation (Bernd)
    • Document canvas, slide pane and statusbar with zoom slider (Andre)

• Fr., 12 June: Kick-Off meeting with team & sponsors