not much this week

This week I have been adding static content to my application and this has been quite boring but it is a necessary evil. I have most of the static content in the application now and I am starting to look at the more complicated dynamic parts, I have found some software called Kuneri lite:
http://www.kunerilite.net/

This Software acts as a bridge between flash lite and symbian devices, it uses C+ code to help access useful feature on the phone. At the moment I am struggling to make sense of it but I will keep looking till I get somewhere with it.

logo Design

Hi here is this week’s update, I am not very well today but the project still goes on so let’s talk logo design! I have been struggling with my logo for this project, logos are an integral part of a products branding so it needs to be right and that’s the problem. You know when you have produced something that feels right and thus far nothing has felt right until now so let’s review the logo design process. I started off with my mood board take a look below:

I took inspiration from the colours within the South African flag, the English flag and footballs.

I developed ideas and I quite liked a design that I based around the flag of St George. I discussed this with my lecturer and we decided that this narrowed the appeal of the application to English fans only.

I then tried developing my ideas focussing on the colours of the South African flag and I tried incorporating the shape of South Africa as a nation into my design but nothing seemed to feel right.

I spoke to another lecturer who said “look at the words Fan Friend it’s for fans, it’s a friend” this gave me a different point of view that has lead me to this design:


This design feels right it is clean & simple, it show a pair of arms hugging a football and a representation of the South African flag bringing them together. The hugging element of the logo represents friendship the font is clean and simple and the logo is also reworkable for future sporting events or football tournaments by simply replacing the South African flag with a replacement relative to future events.

This weeks progress

I presented my idea to my lecturer and class colleagues yesterday and the feedback from both was very good.

I have just completed a lynda.com course on mobile development and I have started reading the book I ordered a few weeks ago, as it has only just arrived the book is Flash Applications For Mobile Devices, by Richard Leggett, Weyert de Boer & Scott Janousek.
I now need to start putting some of the skills I am learning into practice and start prototyping my application.

Fan Friend Proposal

Today I presented my proposal to develop my self initiated project idea Fan Friend. I presented an abstract or brief overview of the idea, my personal and professional goals for the project and hopes for the intended user experience, followed by the projects structure and visual appearance. I then set out a time scale in which I hoped to deliver the finished piece or in my case the prototype.

I developed some notes with more detail to help my presentation - View Presentation Notes here PDF.

I also created a PowerPoint presentation that had the main points of my proposal to give my audience a visual view of my proposal - View Proposal Powerpoint PDF.

The presentation went well and the feedback from my lecturer and my fellow students was not only positive but encouraging.

Its Not Easy

I have been given the go ahead to proceed with this project as long as I create a working version as much as resources allow and a emulated version that shows the fully featured product as I would have liked it.

I am struggling with my logo design at the moment and I am not too sure where that is heading, I will definately have a good logo design at some point but now I feel it is time to concentrate on something else for a while.

I am just putting together my project proposal PowerPoint, this is not only my first mobile phone application it is also my first proper PowerPoint presentation so I hope it goes well.

It is hard trying to plan a development schedule when you are not entirely sure of everything that will be involved in developing a mobile phone application, to an extent I will be learning as I go and this will throw up new challenges as I move forward in the development process.

The task I have set myself is one that I believe is attainable but unfortunately the only way I will find out if this is correct is by completing the process.