At our meeting today, we basically agreed that there are a few major action items we need to complete before the end of the semester. Almost all of these were part of the original project proposal (seems so far back now), and the rest have come up in client meetings or as part of a product pitch. In no particular order, these are:
1.) User accounts - to save location in a current traversal to come back to later, at the very least. Saving the set of previous diagnoses would be really nice too but has a lower return on investment for the time.
2.) Ad placement - part of the revenue stream. At the last product pitch (and in the proposal), we stated we were going to use targeted ads. We need to research an API for this to make our lives easier, and implement it.
3.) Backtracking - this is nearly done. Allows user to cancel a question answer and return to the question again.
4.) Email box - the display is present, but not functional. This constitutes the "contact us" portion of the website for when users have a comment or issue to report with our diagnostic procedures or general things.
5.) Additional diagnostic charts - this is mostly my area. As of yesterday there are full charts for two topics in the database - cooling system and starting issues. We need at least a couple more, I'm currently thinking one for brakes and maybe one for vehicle noises.
I think this is all doable in the remaining time, but we need to keep it up. If we sag in the next week or two (which is possible, as many classes have re-upped their workloads from the spring break cool-down), we could get into some trouble. Again, all of these features are really required for us to claim that we successfully completed the project described in the proposal. We would also like to do a few other UI things to enhance the UX if we can. Some of these features are directly related to UX though, such as user accounts, backtracking, and the email box.
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