Week 7: Mockup complexity

To educate students in the University of Hawaii about energy conservation we're creating a competition to encourage lower usage of electricity..

Making mockups getting more and more complicated. As our group continues to map out the design of the Kukui cup competition site, I'm creating more and more mockups to kind of string together a story of how this site will work. My part in this is the energy data page. The technical stuff is really what's taking up so much time. I'm creating mockups to show exactly how the selections and also how clicking on an image will enlarge it. That's why Balsamiq the mockup software tool is really becoming a bothersome program. It's not good for large projects. If there's any way to manage all these mockups that would be great, but there isn't.

On the other hand, I finished creating a third timeline for the competition. This set of mockups is what the site will look like at October 11, 2010. Since this is the second week into the competition there's a lot more data and also more functionality I can show off. That's why there is so much trouble in managing the mockups. I'm having trouble updating the mockups everytime I get a new idea.

Right now, our group has created yet another set of mockups for this particular time. It might be necessary to create all the mockups and wrapup this part of our project. Milestone 2 is fast approaching it's end. It's something to discuss with the mates.

As always, I added images of the mockups into our wiki pages on the project site. This too is becoming a large collection of material. It'll be necessary to start partitioning off our mockups just to keep things. The wiki itself is quite large.

That will be my goal for this week along with the ongoing process of making mockups. I'm going to start organizing the mockups so that we know who's mockup are who's. The number of mockup pages are growing very fast.

http://code.google.com/p/uh-dorm-energy-competition/wiki/mockupMilestone2?ts=1267510898&updated=mockupMilestone2#energy_data_10-11-10