by David Parry | 28 Jul 2017 | Development History
It’s just a short email with a few words in it, but it was worth a lot to us. We had been approved. Was this the end of the beginning, or the beginning of the next phase. It was getting serious now anyway – you should see the grant agreement paperwork you...
by David Parry | 21 Jul 2017 | Development History
As if User Interface designers weren’t expensive enough, software developers cost even more. We had funded this from reserves so far, but now we had to get some additional funding. It felt too soon to look for investors as we hadn’t proved its value (or...
by David Parry | 14 Jul 2017 | Development History
It’s one thing having a pretty looking user interface, but it doesn’t ‘Do’ anything. It just sits there looking pretty. You can start to show it to existing and potential users to get feedback, but it is inanimate. It’s needs to have life...
by David Parry | 7 Jul 2017 | Development History
There’s something amazing that happens in the brain when someone else spends time on something you are passionate about. There’s probably some psychologist phrase for it, and I am sure it alters your judgement. It is important to stand back and try to take...
by David Parry | 30 Jun 2017 | Development History
We had got to the point of realising we needed experts to design not just the look and feel, but a more attractive interface that drew people in. This needs a designer’s eye – not a consultants one. We could tell you how to run an effective meeting and had...
by David Parry | 23 Jun 2017 | Development History
At this stage we knew we were going to have to redesign the User Interface (UI). Our version 1.0 was feature rich and doing pretty much exactly what we needed it to. We could see from how new users interacted with it though, that it wasn’t intuitive enough. We...
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