End of Week 5

Tasks accomplished for the week:

• User interface pattern analysis - 1 hour - full team
• Blog posting - 0.5 hours - Rob

Design Document:

• Document writing(documentation, prototype screenshots) - 4 hours - Full team
• Architectural view diagram : Components - 0.5 hours - Dan
• Architectural view diagram : Deployment- 0.25 hours - Rob
  
• Additional toolbar mockup - 0.5 hours - Dan
  
• Additional color wheel mockup - 0.5 hours - Matt K
• Cleanup for final submission- 0.75 hours - Matt K
  

Prototype development :

• Improved On Screen Keyboard, first tool menu - 3 hours - Dan
  
• Prototype development - Email Integration, Toolbar updates, Eraser, Welcome, Session Timer - 5 hours - Rob
• Help screens - 2 hours - Rob
• Color Selection Wheel - 2 hours - Matt K

Tasks to focus on next week:

Prototype todo list ( Some unclaimed items with no assigned worker - sign up!)

• Enable sessions by default, tune session behavior - 2 hours- Rob
  
• Remembering last entered email address until session ends - 0.5 hours- Rob
  
• Confirm that email went through- send boolean back from php script - 2 hours- Matt B?
• Correct interaction of tool menu with undo button - 2 hours - Rob
• Icons for everything -5 hours - Dan? Others?
• Better Welcome Screen - 1 hour
• Predefined sizes for brushes in tool menus - 3 hours
• Stamp functionality -3 hours- Rob
• Multiple email recipients
• Custom cursors (art) - 2 hours
• Custom cursors (code) - 1 hour

Prototype todo later list - times and owners unknown at this time

• Radial color selector
• Radial tool selector
• Video for welcome screen

Challenges and Issues:

• Issue: Drawing outside of canvas is possible with large brushes (bad)
• Issue: Mouse-up outside of flash is possible even in fullscreen mode (bad)
• Issue: "Undo" method currently causes visual anomalies with the tool menu (really bad)
• Challenge: Learning how to have interaction between custom Flex components
• Continuing challenge : Balancing flexibility of tools given to user with the desire for simplicity
• Continuing challenge: Icon design for showing multiple sub-functions