Reviewing day #1

Day two is ahead of us, so I’m taking a brief moment to do a short review of day one.

We started with the kick-off where we explained more about the concept ‘Prototyping Weekends, what the goals are for the weekend and what we aim to build. After the introduction Michiel explained what we believed to be the hardest part of the weekend, collaboration between the participants. We came up with a few different models for collaboration during the weekend.

We choose this model, where a central ‘mission control’ is responsible for the end product and two teams hand in their development and design works. Mission control combines all the work into a working piece of software.

The first day is mainly used to lay all the basics for the application. First we formed two groups, one group focussing on concept and the other group focussing on setting up the development environment. This consumed our first hours of developing before lunch. After lunch the teams moved on to creating the first works of the weekend.

In the afternoon we worked on a bunch of different preperations for the final application. These preperations will pay off today when we start building the front-end. Most of the preperations are done. For diner we had pizza’s outside ^^.

Today we’re going to post updates for Wallstream to the internet and we’re going to need your help. Part of the Prototyping Weekends concept is Open Innovation. We want users to give feedback during the creation of the web app in order to keep it simple and relevant to the end user.

During the day we’ll post blogpost on how you can help us with feedback. Stay tuned!