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For BarcampKerala2, how my team made mobshare v1.1
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Mobile Social Networking. In 25 days.Vishnu Gopalvish.in
Me:Technical Lead, MobME.
A real world case study
of rewriting a stubborn old application
and making it new, pretty and usable.
1 designer. 1 developer.1 sweeper. 25 days.
OLD MOBSHAREPHOTOS, VIDEOS, AUDIO, BLOGS, CLUBS, PEOPLE, SPOTLIGHT, HALL OF FAME, INVITE
NEW MOBSHARESLIDER, PHOTOS, VIDEOS, PEOPLE, UPLOAD, SIGNUP, FEATURED PHOTOS/VIDEOS, ACTIVE USERS
How we did it
Lessons learnt
Mistakes made
Interlude: Background
Poor design and usability.
Slow site.
Confusing. Too many features.
OLD MOBSHAREPHOTOS, VIDEOS, AUDIO, BLOGS, CLUBS, PEOPLE, SPOTLIGHT, HALL OF FAME, INVITE
Was not sellable.
We (re)started with the vision.
A place where anybody can share media taken on
a mobile.
Cut down on the features:Photos, Videos, Social Networking,Mobile interaction.
Less is more. Do less, but do it better.
Made mockups of the whole site design.
MOBSHARE MOCKUPPOWERPOINT MOCKUP OF THE PROFILE PAGE.
HTMLized the Mockup ASAP.
DESIGN NEUTRAL HTMLHTMLIZED VERSION OF THE VIEW PAGE.
outsourced rest of the work to a design firm
FINAL DESIGNPRETTY MUCH EXACTLY TO SPEC.
High Level Technology Choices:PHP, Symfony frameworkStandard LAMP serversFactory in Ruby
Had lots of choices:RAILS / DJANGO, LIGHTTPD / NGINXDecided on Familiar over ‘Better’
Fast turnaround needs agile and small teams.
Clear separation of work
Developer, Designer and One Person to Roam
Around Between the Two Roles (Sweeper)
Definite milestones
Do or die, we kept to those milestones.
Daily Communication with management through
EODs.
Mistakes
Didn’t get reliable servers.
Didn’t plan for continuity.
Not enough documentation.
No Unit Tests.
Praise: George BrodyIt looks FANTASTIC!! The team has done a great job on the whole user experience part.
NEW MOBSHARESLIDER, PHOTOS, VIDEOS, PEOPLE, UPLOAD, SIGNUP, FEATURED PHOTOS/VIDEOS, ACTIVE USERS
Sellable.
Proud.
Questions?Register at
www.mobshare.in& send MMS to