These are pictures of the protoype being tested on a symbian phone emulator.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
prototyping on a phone
After the information architecture, we had a clear picture of what is required of the application and how this is going to happen. Now it was just the question of doing it.
These are pictures of the protoype being tested on a symbian phone emulator.
These are pictures of the protoype being tested on a symbian phone emulator.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
information architecture and navigation
i worked on the workflow of the software. How many screens and modes it would have. My aim was to make something that allowed the user easy access and an ability to record things spontaneously.
Found
Many phone calls, meetings and emails later, i found a company that was developing applications on symbian phones, and had been doing it for a while. They seemed trustworthy and earnest about the project, and therefore i decided to make my first prototype with them.
I met sandeep -business development, alok- owner of thinkways and arahanth- ceo thinkways. Who all seemed happy to collaborate with me, in exchange i would redesign their website for them. They were also close to yelahanka so i could afford to be there everyday and simaltaneously work on the front end of the software while they did the backend.
Finding a collaborator
As i am quite a novice when it comes to writing software i had to do a lot of research and certain amount of immersion in this field to find people who i would like to work with.
These were some of my initial attempts to find a collaborator.
1) S.P road or city market in bangalore is the electronic consumerables hub in the city. There are a few people who work with cellphones- installing new apps, making tweaks and repairing them . I found one such person called ali who could help me pull out the cellphone camera to make it something wearable. Ali owns his own cell repair shop called cell world in sp road.
2) CITL- Chip integrated technologies limited is a company in Vijaynagar Bangalore, that is a outsourcing company that works with embedded technologies, However this attempt of mine failed miserably, as it turned out that this company did not have any experience in developing for cellphones. After a one and a half weeks of chasing them around i gave up hope.
3) Monster.com - My one and a half weeks spent at CITL were however not a complete waste. I had learnt about different mobile operating systems and which one was appropriate for the time saver. Therefore with these things in place i ran specific searches for each on monster. com. I sent out some 50 emails, and ended up on the brighter better side of the bridge. Thinkways technologies private limited
These were some of my initial attempts to find a collaborator.
1) S.P road or city market in bangalore is the electronic consumerables hub in the city. There are a few people who work with cellphones- installing new apps, making tweaks and repairing them . I found one such person called ali who could help me pull out the cellphone camera to make it something wearable. Ali owns his own cell repair shop called cell world in sp road.
2) CITL- Chip integrated technologies limited is a company in Vijaynagar Bangalore, that is a outsourcing company that works with embedded technologies, However this attempt of mine failed miserably, as it turned out that this company did not have any experience in developing for cellphones. After a one and a half weeks of chasing them around i gave up hope.
3) Monster.com - My one and a half weeks spent at CITL were however not a complete waste. I had learnt about different mobile operating systems and which one was appropriate for the time saver. Therefore with these things in place i ran specific searches for each on monster. com. I sent out some 50 emails, and ended up on the brighter better side of the bridge. Thinkways technologies private limited
Monday, July 6, 2009
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