Prototype working!

Alas I got what I planned to. Right now it essentially looks like four boxes which colour as you select but that is the main bulk of the idea.

In the examples above the first red screenshot is the main window. The 2nd (with all the black) shows what will become the contextual menu for the selected item (still in red.. #4 in this case). As of right now the idea is the box above or below the one selected will be the 'info' box, showing basic profile information of the poster in question. The top of the remaining two blocks will be the comments box with the one directly below showing any interactions (reposts / likes / etc). Not 100% about the layout, ie margins but it is most definitely working and the feedback is immense.

Prototyping

So yesterday I prototyped the contextual menu for the app. It is fully working on one of the boxes at a time. I'm having the night off to catch up with my personal life (read: ironing), but I hope to get it resolved and fully working tomorrow. Not happy with the process at present either, but I'm happy that ours give from nothing to feasibly working in a day. The progress will keep going the same way.

Resurrection

Cotton lives on! Whilst it still hasn't shown any sign of life in the 4+ years, a lot of work has gone into each iteration no matter how small it eventually was. Last night the latest version kicked off again. The idea of a metro like theme came to fruition. The idea of clothing and the whole side swipe is very reminiscent of real within a wardrobe. A four block home allows for nice big images with plenty of scope for interaction and all that other good stuff. I quickly built a html prototype with interaction on each of the four blocks. Hoping to get a solid base coded up CSS wise, then its just a case of retrieving that via the various pathways. The blocks also allow us to break down the retrieval into bigger chunks (pages), so I have hope that will only help.

Think a good realistic aim for the end of the week is a good visual idea of what it well be.. Fully done in html and CSS.

TC