web-dev

I want to take this opportunity to revisit the first goals of this Journal and also of the portfolio site and see what I have achieved. There are of course areas that I would have liked to do more with but I have kept them on my Trello board for future reference as the portfolio site particularly will live on.

Click on this link to view the archived version of the final website (http://fionamacneill.co.uk/wearable/).

Part 1 of my final evaluation. This entry outlines key decisions that I made regarding accessibility towards the end of the development period. I am writing and publishing it retroactively as it as represents a very large amount of thinking and work, which I kept notes about as I went along.

In my last entry I talked about the suggestions that Theo provided from his perspective as a nurse and researcher. They were very helpful, but lead to some rather major layout changes.

Dr. Theo Fotis and I met on the 11th of January to take a last look at the site prior to my assessment. This meeting was mainly for fact-checking the information that I had written, but Theo also had some thoughts on ways to add clarity to the different sections.

I knew that all of that work that I did on polls would come in handy at some point. The time arrived, as displaying data was something that seemed important from the beginning, to support the goals for the project.

This journal entry represents a mammoth effort to add high-quality content to the site. I developed and added the patient story. This was based on a characteristics list which I worked through rather vigorously on the afternoon of the 25th.

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” ― Douglas Adams (1989, p. 124) So up until the 24th of December I dallied with solutions for the navigation, but I had not really tackled the core issue.

A bit more on this to follow on from my last entry and to provide my references. I added a skip to content link as part of my development of the core navigation in the site.

Update on the previously mentioned to-do list: concept document Task scenarios Now at version 3 to reflect the decision to present all of the content on one long page. Business Model Canvas General characteristics for user groups - I went a bit more in-depth and produced a user characteristics list for the primary user group of health professionals - direct link to the Google doc [Tentative plan] create a UML diagram - I am not going to do this, as it is primarily a tool to communicate with developers and as I am UXer and developer here I think that it is more important for me to crack on with the development (although if I had been more self-disciplined and followed a UML I probably could have avoided the feature creep outlined below).