A Weblog entry posted on Monday, October 15 2007

One Month App update by Aaron

We've got a little over a week remaining in the one month of development time for our cash flow management application. Here's some of the posts from the past few weeks on our One Month App blog.

• Help us name the one month app

  In a perfect world, with perfect timelines and perfect budgets, we'd hire a branding agency to help us devise the perfect name and branding for the one month app. That perfect world definitely does not exist in this short month, so we are tasked with coming up with a name and giving it some kind of brand.

• Database Design

  One of our first real technical tasks is database design. While some of this is in the back of our minds though the initial stages, it becomes more important as we start to nail down the front end interface. This is the point where we make sure everything that has been designed is taken care of from a data standpoint.

• Simplifying the interface

  
  As I started to build out the initial design mockup into HTML/CSS, I realized that I was going to need to simplify a few things in order to accomplish everything I wanted to do with the interface. I wanted the interface to have a flexible width to accommodate different screen resolutions but mainly to give room for cash flow charts with big numbers and longer income and expenses titles.

• Technical Roles in the Design Stage

  We are also considering how all the technical pieces will come together. Sometimes we can make slight alterations to the design that will not affect the end user, but will save us time in development or even utilize less system resources once the application is running.

• Initial design mockup

  
  To help keep things organized, there will be expanding and collapsing options for the income, expenses and each company. This will be done by clicking the arrows next to each item.