Day 15 - Documenting things

Today was all about writing down aspects of the company, the goals, core values and value proposition. It gave me an interesting perspective, as it was time to write down things with not many technical details. Now a few documents are in place, all with a little different purpose and different information from each other.

Day 14 - Continue refining the first interaction

The general idea of the first interaction was shaped up and was in pixels, but a little more refinement was needed. So it was refined and it was in place and now it was time to work on another listing and work on the user interactions. This screen needed to be driving by swipe-actions, so I looked at some of the common UI patterns to achieve that and came up with 2 versions of the design. It was a good progress with some machine learning aspects of the module.

Day 13 - Planning the first interaction

With all the views and listings in place, it was time to work on the first interaction with the user. This is the input screen where the user will be adding data, it is crucial because the interaction flow needs to be quick and should have enough information to be analyzed. The screens were done with a few iterations and there was a meetup scheduled at the place where I was working. I was kind of expecting a little bit more from the meetup but it was good enough and a good learning experience.

Day 12 - It was all about netwroking

There was no work today as I was just talking with people and sharing things. Got a few ques in therm of investment opportunities as well. By the end of the day, I was reevaluating things in terms of how much to ask in this round of funding. I was putting things together in terms of how to present the idea to a person who is not much on the technical side of things.

Day 11 - Focus on investment

With some designs in place, it was time to keep a check on the financial part. We are still raising the seed round, so I sent in a few mail and looked for options where the funds can be raised. The day was about thinking, searching and planning. Nothing concrete still finalized on this part still, but we believe it is a process and we are in process to get our funding in place.

Day 10 - Continuing on design

Today was about refinements on the designs. The idea was to complete the screens to see the complete flow of the application and then work on the added details. So today was about those details and refinements to the design. I was happy with the flow but was not so satisfied with the overall look and feel of the screens. The screens were refined and worked on research about some of the common patterns in the mobile UI design. By the end of the day, the designs were better and well in shape to assess what development will be like.

Day 9 - Design Design and Design

So after a few days of not being in office because of a friend's wedding, it was time to get back on track. Today was a lot of design and a lot of progress was made in terms of screens and the overall flow of the application. A lot of minute details came into context today and was interesting to see that the application was growing in scale.

There was a lot of detail that was needed in those screens and that made room for some clever features.

Day 8 - Another rework and a fresh look

Today was also more about rework and refining the prototypes that I have made. So half of the day was gone working on the listing view and the dashboard of the application and than I was also able to finish some other layouts. The initial prototypes are looking good and also learning Origami, which is really awesome for prototyping.

Day 7 - Rework

Today I was in the flow to continue from where I left yesterday. Things soon changed and I had to redo a lot of things because of some confusion on the artboard size while I was prototyping. So this day was all focused on the rework, I could have continued with designing that way, but it would have complicated things in the long run.

Day6 - Refining the core concepts

So continuing with design flow and the initial wireframing, I had to rethink on some of the initial flows. The concept and the flow were still consistent with the initial thoughts, but the interaction needed some change. After a lot of design iterations, I was not fully frozen in one single way to achieve that interaction but reached close.