[DesDev] Re: redesign - client side

[Peter-Paul Koch]

>>so, rather than talking about details so much, can we please continue with
>>the conversation about high-level requirements and go from there?
>
>Which for those playing along at home started at
>http://lists.evolt.org/theforumarchive/Week-of-Mon-20030811/000182.html
>and hasn't really got anywhere.

As I said on theforum I volunteer to do all the client side stuff for the 
Evolt redesign. (X)HTML (pick your flavour), CSS, JavaScript, possibly also 
some interaction design. No graphic design, I'm very bad at it.

I hope I'm not stepping on anyone's toes by this offer. I do like to work on 
my own, that is, get a PSD and create a complete template first, and discuss 
and amend it only afterwards. I'm a pretty bad  teamwork programmer since I 
always feel I know everything better <g>.

I'd like to treat this as a normal job, so I'm allocating about four days to 
it, probably somewhere early in October. Martin said he wanted the coding to 
be done in October, and since he's the closest thing to a project manager 
we're having, his will is Law.

I'd like to write a normal functional design for it, too, as I always do. 
(do you call it a 'functional design'? You know, where you break down the 
navigation, sum up the elements on the screen, give some flowcharts and 
interaction instructions)

Has anyone ever written something like this? We'll have to wait for the 
discussion about the actual functionalities to end first, but when that's 
done I'd like to make a solid interaction breakdown so I know what I'll have 
to create.

I'd like to have a formal project team for the client side redesign, though. 
It makes things so much easier in the long run. Who is going to be 
responsible for the design? Isaac? He's the one who actually set things 
rolling by his proposal and he's done some homework.  Martin seems to be de 
facto project manager, which is fine by me.

Who else is going to be involved in the client side redesign?

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