1. You must write your Interaction points (forms, when data gets entered, layout)
2. You will be late, tired and you still don’t have an excuse. It’s not them….
3. Start with a Sharpie, if you’re not technical.
4. Start in the *middle of the page*… who cares about the rest…
5. Get something into HTML.. that’s where it really begins…

SPP: Update: You Wufoo as a form builder if you don’t know how to do it.. it will help your technical team 100%

About half way through, I had this thing called a baby. All I’ll say is it made me smile and tired. I’m happy to say she has her mother’s good looks.

I noticed a few things. The normal chats and emails weren’t getting across to the developers. I take this as my own fault, I was the one with a large variable change. We added a new developer, and started on the collection app.

“Steve, can you make some wire frames.” Ok, I said, that’s fair. I know what the collection app should look like, and you don’t. I’m not technical, nor did I have any specialized tools, but sharpie and paper were enough. So I sat down with my 10 year old, he’s great to see if it’s easy to use, and I took a sharpie to paper.

It was a critical step, Agustin within a few days of very part time work, had put together a really good cut of the application.

You could:

1. guess the grade
2. post pictures
3. view everyone’s
4. filter by your friends etc.

It occurred to me that the next step after figuring out what I wanted was to make a page for each major activity.

It doesn’t matter how technical you are or are not, you need to know what you want and you need to be able to outline it with a sharpie. It’s perfect b/c it forces you to concentrate on the “big things” (TM) and not yet worry about the details, you’ll have time for that later.

The funny thing is, it took a little while longer to figure out this is where actual software development begins. You have to have the html, css and something to touch and feel.

If people can’t interact, it does not exist.