A Successful Presentation and Building a Prototype (10/23/20)

We did it! After hours of practicing our presentation and revising the script and report, we finally presented to the sponsor and it turned out great. The sponsor was very pleased with our progress and our vision for the app. They gave us some great feedback that we are going to incorporate immediately. This included some UI tweeks so that it is more user-friendly for sighted and low-vision users while still maintain the integrity of the blind user experience. They also recommended us rearrange our Sprints so that certain goals are tackled earlier on.

Now that the PDR presentation and report are not behind us, we are beginning to develop our prototype for our first Sprint. For this week, each of us are going to indepentently develop a basic app with a very simple UI just to get our feet wet in React Native. We are going to have this done by this Thursday, and from there we are going to formally assign jobs to each of us. From here on out we are going to finish collecting weather API information and begin figuring out how to incorporate the information into our app.

This first sprint is going to focus on getting a navigable UI. We are going to lay the groundwork for the rest of the app, which includes integrating the weather API and designing around accessibility. During this Sprint, we are also going to start incorporating some basic weather information from the API. This is to get ourselves familiar with how the information is given to us and how we can work with it. There’s a lot of work to do now, but we are all very eager to start!

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