GR4 - Computer Prototyping
Platform and software requirements
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- Download the zip file at: http://caffeinatedcocoa.com/6.813/PhotoBook
- Unzip it and double click on "PhotoBook"
- (You may have to click on the icon in the dock to bring the application to the front)
Description of prototype
Look
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!
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- The Facebook backend is not implemented. Instead, we are including hardcoded photos, albums, and friends.
- The searching feature is not fully implemented. Entering any names in the search field always finds photos containing "Adam Leonard" and "Debroah Hollo"
- In GR3, 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.
- Opening a photo in the search results view always opens a single hardcoded photo instead.
Credits
We wanted to get familiar with the iOS SDK and reuse some of the code we wrote for this prototype on the final iPad implementation. So, we used an early open source Mac port of the iOS SDK called Chameleon <http://chameleonproject.org/> by The Icon Factory.
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