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Hone Smart Home
At the end of my last entry I outlined my discovery that there was an app building company called Bubble, which would likely lead to brand confusion. As a result I decided to go back to some of the ideas on my earlier sketchbook page and consider other possibilities that would tackle some of the same goals.
13 Feb, 2017
7 min read
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hone
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idm22
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MSc
Naming - initial ideas
On this page of my sketchbook I used a dice rolling exercise (Barnard & Briscoe, 2016) to explore different name combinations for the potential company. Initially I gravitated towards BubbleHome as a concept.
11 Feb, 2017
5 min read
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hone
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idm22
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MSc
Welcome to my new IDM22 Journal
Greetings! I have decided that I would like to keep up my reflective writing activities during IDM22. This is due to my recent experience on the web development module and also thinking back to when I took IDM21 (seems so long ago now!
4 Feb, 2017
6 min read
reflection
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hone
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idm22
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MSc
About - Hone Design Project
Overview: Hone - The Smart Home Show Home and Assistant Problem Sales of Smart Home technologies in the UK, such as thermostats, web-connected cameras and appliances are reported to have slowed (Titcomb, 2016).
3 Feb, 2017
6 min read
reflection
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hone
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idm22
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MSc
Finishing touches - Eval pt 2
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.
23 Jan, 2017
9 min read
journal-dev
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reflection
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web-dev
Striving for accessibility - Eval pt 1
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.
19 Jan, 2017
9 min read
reflection
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web-dev
Final meeting with stakeholder
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.
12 Jan, 2017
2 min read
reflection
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web-dev
Accessibility and responsive bits
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.
2 Jan, 2017
6 min read
reflection
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web-dev
Cellular concerns
I have been plugging away at the portfolio site with the primary aim of getting a semi-functional prototype version to Dr. Theo Fotis on Monday 12th of December. There is a still a huge amount of stuff to do, fix-up and streamline I will add these tasks to my Trello board.
11 Dec, 2016
11 min read
reflection
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web-dev
Progress on the grid and layout
This week I completed some major fix-up on my grid. Remember when I thought that it was almost fixed? Well I was wrong. In fact I ended up recalculating the whole thing and basing it on a single column being 65px or 6.
8 Dec, 2016
4 min read
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web-dev
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