This week we managed to polish up our tapping to zoom app, which we had been having some bug difficulties with. It seems like a lot of the problems we've been having with our code have been due to a lack of transparency with Interface Builder. Sometimes it seems like Interface Builder changes things or sets things and it's not very apparent so that can make it difficult to understand what's actually going on with your app.
Luckily, we figured out the problem and now both apps are working correctly with the zooming. To finish the apps up we're working on adding an extra button that pops up when you're in the note taking view so that if you don't want to use the onscreen virtual key to exit the view, you can hit the red x. Our CREU faculty member recommended this and I think that it will be more intuitive for people who are not familiar with the iPad or iPhone. Here's a new screenshot of someone using the note taking view, and you can see the additional button on the top right of the note box. Alex actually made the button using photoshop.
We were curious about how our app would look to color blind users, and we found a site where you could upload an image and it would show you how it looked to people with different types of color blindness.
We tried submitting the image of our app and these are what it produces. In order these show how the app looks for people with tritanope, protanope, and deuteranope types of color blindness
While we didn't really consider color blindness very much when writing up our requirements, it might be something to take into consideration at some point. We might not want to rely too much on the use of color to indicate what an icon does.
Other things that we looked into for the week were video streaming to the iPad, because that might be one way we can show the current lecture or the old lectures. Apple seems to provide a lot of documentation on how to handle video streaming, so if we want to go down that route we should have enough information. Abhishek also is trying to host the database we're going to be using for Access Lecture, since we will probably be able to start working with the database more next quarter.
Overall I think this week was pretty productive, and now we just need to get our new apps onto the iPad to test them out on a real device and then they'll be ready for our usability testing.
Lindsey
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