Week 8!

This week ended up being very productive and busy for the Access Lecture team:

Monday: Met for ~2 hours with Chris, who gave us a demonstration of some of the concepts we had asked him about last week.  This really helped solidify what he tried to explain the week before.

Tuesday: We ended up making simple programs to test out scrollviews, which were one of the main UI areas we were confused about.  It ended up being a lot easier than we thought.

Wednesday: Interviewed a college physics professor, so now we've talked to people in the physics department at both the college level and high school level.  We're still looking for people to interview that teach chemistry, but after that we will have talked to professors and teachers from most of the major math and science fields. 

Thursday: We began by figuring out the layout of the app and the different "pages" we'll need.  We then implemented "rough drafts" of the pages using interface builder, to show to our CREU faculty member and see if we were moving in the right direction.  We also ended up setting up our SVN for the project and integrating that with XCode, which was a little confusing at first but we are starting to understand it better.

Friday: We are continuing our design of the UI and determining what information and features will need to be on each page, and how we can make them more accessible while still meeting the UI guidelines.

Perhaps for next weeks blog entry we can include some screenshots of the UI design we're considering. We haven't really included any images yet on our blog and I think it'd be more interesting for our readers if they could see the design rather than if we just described it.

I'm going to go join Abhishek and Alex now, we're currently working on the design of the settings page and what UI elements would be best for the different options.

-Lindsey