We are happy (and surprised) at the amount of new things that we learned designing Gymnasium.
We experienced a new (and stronger) design method that concerns in designing the project phase by phase with a fixed timetable, solving problems one by one and building the project with these achieved solutions. We used a new program (Processing) to do something that seemed impossible before.
We achieved the desired goals, but we are a bit unsatisfied about some points. For example at the beginning we had some problem about organization of the work, we couldn’t respect the timetable for the early phases and we couldn’t decide quickly who did what, also it was hard to find the right concept.
We couldn’t totally program the application because we had too little time and too little capacities in programming. Another aproach would have been to design and program the application’s use flow, from the start to the end, screen by screen, rather than focusing just on the core part’s functioning, with all the problems related to the shapes’ fluid motion and the challenge of controlling the different view-modes with the turning wheel-menu.
We still have some doubt about the comprehension of the application as well, but to sum up we are pleased by Gymnasium’s results. We feel a little heroic.
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