It was a very short week with Thanksgiving, and a much needed break. I feel like I've lost all my memory over the break, so hopefully everything snaps back into place when I get into class again (or at least by Friday).
The first presentation from Team Xtreme was very good for an audience of a less technical customer. The use of the three words they came up with was very creative and added to the presentation. It was probably more difficult for the class to step into this role when everyone has labored over the project. They had some good add on features. I'm not much of a twitter fan, so the extra Twitter feed didn't excite me that much, but the spell check on search was good. I know how many times we mistyped things when we were just testing. It's a very useful feature that I didn't even think of.
The second presentation was less impressive, mostly because of the technical failures. Since the bandwidth was out, they should have switched over to local. I really wanted to know that the image showed up. Even if I just saw that the img tag was in the html or something. It ruined the ability to see important and required functionality. The instant search was a very cool feature. It feels like using Google Instant. Pagination was also a good feature.
Looking at the other sites, some other groups did different things that we were barred from doing after asking the customer (TA and Downing). After asking about not repeating links/images based on url, we were shot down. Also, there were some questions we asked about the search and formed our search around those specifications. Honestly, it's a situation that can appear in the real workplace also. You go on and do something without asking vs asking and then being shut down. It all depends on how your customer/boss reacts.
Looking forward to other groups.
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