Tradeshow

Seeing people respond well to Expressit and quickly and easily create unique content was rewarding, especially as this was our intended goal with Expressit. Our choice of colour scheme paid off well with branding and attracting attention which would prove effective if the site were introduced to the public.

Users enjoyed creating multiple images during testing, both on desktop and on mobile and gave feedback for future iterations and overall the response to Expressit was positive and had an element of fun. This in itself made the journey of development worth it.

UQ staff and students can view the final product here.  

Some Expressits produced at the Tradeshow:

Based on feedback and viewing the creations, changes going forward would include choosing different fonts, increasing the size of the text (or resizing if we can find out how to do so) and a standard size for images.

I enjoyed the tradeshow experience and am proud of the efforts of the group.

expressit update

This week I have been focusing on CSS fixes and creating error messages and screens. At present, the design  issues are minor but detail is of high importance in terms of our minimalist design, as anything out of place can throw off the balance.

Key issues fixed:
- editing menus, background and Text colors were all white, I managed to fix this
- creating warning screens when users would navigate away from image editing the they would lose progress. The screen must still be included in the journey
- a back to categories link that takes users from image browsing to choose a new category
- padding, margins and alignment in editing menus as well as browsing

Still to fix
- Centre image during editing
- Centre output image and create sharing screen
- move loading bar
- fix wrapper sizes; some browsers have lower layer visible. 

Update

After the progress report, coding developed further. 

The search terms were completed, but based on our success criteria of fast delivery, loading times were far too long. With the help of Arturo, I learned to use php more effectively and we decided to use a different approach and load 8 images at a time to reduce waiting time, and add a next button that would load the next search terms within that category. This could take a bit of coding, but a good approach may be to implement an array for each category where clicking "next" or "previous would shuffle through.