Design Meeting - May 19, 2009

Discussed three current areas of focus for FE designers:

1. iPhone application of McCord artifacts collection page

Goal: Translate the McCord's artifact collection page into an iPhone application
- http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/keys/collections/
Developers learning/playing with the iPhone SDK
Designer's to do list...
- Look into:
  - What other museums have done with the iPhone (and other mobile devices); e.g., Dallas Museum of Art, our museum partners, etc.
  - Apple's iPhone videos (introducing the UI, SDK, etc.)
  - Apple's iPhone Human Interface Guidelines (http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/MobileHIG/index.html)
- Pick Hugues' brain on ideas he has for the iPhone application
- Pick through the McCord artifacts collection page
- Brainstorming a feature set
- Developing user stories
- Developing wireframes, mockups
- Paper prototype testing with users
- A few quick design iterations over the wireframes
Have something to show by June 22 (for the all-hands meeting)
Folks involved: Clayton, Tona and James

Spatial vs. conceptual mapping of data
Location-unaware mapping (vs. location aware mapping)
Goal: Design and develop a bite-sized location unaware map, possibly involving 2D barcoding; define a use case, small munchable subproject
To do over the next week...
- Have some more conversations with Antranig
- Define a use case, small munchable subproject
- Plan out the subproject
Have something to show by June 22 (for the all-hands meeting)
Folks involved: Antranig, James, Erin, Tona, Muriel