New Action plan

Today we all met up as a group to discuss some trouble we are having with our client. We are finding that we are running out of time because we have had to spend a lot of time coming up with mock-ups of which the client hasn't been entirely happy with. He has had very specific ideas that are not achievable, such as 3D rotating ice-cream, a two player ice cream flash game with different levels and more. He has also changed his theme with each set of mock-ups, he's gone from 50's American diner to the concept that YUMi is the only ice cream parlour in Nottingham and is about the people (eat ice cream for daily happiness).

Problem's with the Mock-ups (from his point of view):

• The concept isn't literal enough. He wants people sharing and enjoying ice cream together
• He wants iconic buildings of Nottingham to be made out of ice cream to show that YUMI is the only ice cream parlour in Nottingham.

Want we need to do:

• Go back to the requirement stage and ask ourselves what is this site for?
• Build the site based on one of our designs and test the functionality

The above diagram is based on the development cycle we need to go around a few times to see if our site is user friendly and not to heavily based on how pretty it look, which is the way the the client is seeing it from. We are doing one last mock-up and and making him choose for the project and the building on it after the deadline so his needs don't get in the way of the time scale.

Also we have assigned ourselves different roles so that we can develop our personal professional practice

ERD Diagram- Nick

Gallery-Nick

Build in Dreamweaver- Nick

Project management/client liaison- Gayr

Javascript to change background design- Gayr

FB link/ widget- Emma/Gayr

Voucher design- Emma

Flash game-Will

Photo up loader (PHP)- Will