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Although our project is made for the iPad, due to the constraints of the testing for this prototype, we developed a prototype for computers. I can be operated on any modern computer. @@@ need a trackpad to scroll? @@@ The prototype requires a 64-bit Mac running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. The Macs in the building 26 Athena cluster should run our prototype well.
Instructions for starting up prototype
To start up the prototype, follow the following instructions:
- Download the zip file at:
- Open Unzip it and ......launch PhotoBook
Description of prototype
Describe which parts of the prototype are shallow (incompletely implemented or canned), so that your evaluators know what should work and what shouldn't.
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After doing a final iteration of hand drawings for each window and feature of the application, we spent a lot of time looking at the various details. We expect the look of the final version to be very similar to this prototype, but we will see what feedback we receive!
Some drawing bugs exist in the prototype. For example, opening an album when the view is scrolled down does not animate and draw the background correctly. Additionally, some animations are incomplete, and minor details, such as shadows, sizes, and colors, are not yet up to spec.
Feel
Since our application was designed specifically for the iPad, this computer prototype will obviously have a different feel. The user is expected to scroll a lot while viewing pictures and this will be replaced by scrolling on the trackpad which
Breadth
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, or with a mouse with a scroll wheel. Note that the scroll indicator is not currently drawn. Also, multitouch gestures for opening photos, resizing photos, and moving between photos with swipes, cannot be implemented in this prototype.
Breadth / Depth
The features required to complete the scenario for GR2 are implemented in this prototype. Here are a few things that are not yet implemented:
- The Facebook backend is not implemented. Instead, we are including hardcoded photos, albums, and friends
- The searching feature is not fully implemented. Entering any name or names in the search field always finds photos containing "Adam Leonard" and "Debroah Hollo"
- In GR 3, we decided to make the tagged names in the Photos view act as menus with options for searching for photos with those tagged people. This is not needed for the prototype, so it has not yet been implemented.
- Only the Email sharing option is functional.
- Some of the widgets are not fully implemented. For example, the search field does not have a cancel button, so the user has to delete the text to clear the search (and return to Albums / People view). We will get fully implemented widgets for free when we use the iPad SDK.