{"id":1277,"date":"2008-02-29T16:01:48","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T15:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conclave.open.ac.uk\/guycarberry\/?p=228"},"modified":"2008-02-29T16:01:48","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T15:01:48","slug":"working-on-mystuff-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/2008\/02\/29\/working-on-mystuff-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Working on MyStuff again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back on board after six months doing other things. Since I passed over my design comps the developers have been hard at work coding it up into an actual application.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still very rough around the edges but I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s at about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Development_stage#Alpha\">alpha stage<\/a> now, ready for a bit of testing. Needs a lot of tidying up and severe usability testing before going anywhere near the general population though.<\/p>\n<p>It would be interesting to see how some of the target audience for the system get on with it. What I&#8217;ve seen is quite bewildering &#8211; many many features to get you head around! No idea how many stakeholders were involved but it shows that there were a hell of a lot!<\/p>\n<p>I still think there&#8217;s a need for a &#8216;MyStuff lite&#8217; that starts with a single feature and does that amazingly well before moving onto the next one (which would be what the majority of the end-users were crying out for). But that couldn&#8217;t really be defined as an &#8216;ePortfolio&#8217; I guess. Having scouted about the net looking at other ePortfolios I&#8217;ve yet to find one that makes any sense to me.<\/p>\n<p>On a purely aesthetic note, the cut and shut design (metal topbar?) is looking pretty ugly but I&#8217;m sure that can be bashed into shape with a bit of time. There&#8217;s no scope for me to do anything like that at this point though &#8211; I&#8217;m simply doing some work to make the form output a bit more presentable.<\/p>\n<p>Will be interesting to see it evolve. Are you using MyStuff? What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back on board after six months doing other things. Since I passed over my design comps the developers have been hard at work coding it up into an actual application. It&#8217;s still very rough around the edges but I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s at about alpha stage now, ready for a bit of testing. Needs a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[19,31,87],"class_list":["post-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-work","tag-eportfolio","tag-graphical-user-interface","tag-web-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}