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SwahEng Application for Android
- Left to right: Sal Torcivia, Michael Cornell, Mgeni Mgeni, Zainab Abdulrahman, Mwanaidi Shehe
Names, E-mails
- Mgeni K. Mgeni: mgenimore@gmail.com - Client
- Michael Cornell: mike.cornell.009@gmail.com - Developer
- Mwanaidi H. Shehe: bintihassan306@gmail.com - Client
- Salvatore Torcivia: salvatore.torcivia.93@gmail.com - Developer
- Zainab Y. Abdulrahman: saidayussuf@gmail.com - Client
- gsd2014team1@googlegroups.com
This app focuses on helping those who visit either an English or Swahili speaking country. It will aid visitors by allowing them to have access to translations that are easy to access on the go if they need them in a pinch. It will also allow users to practice when they aren't traveling through flashcards for practicing words and phrases.
Visiting a Swahili/English speaking country? Not fluent in one or the other? Try SwahEng today! An easy way to get proficient! Try it today!
We aim to have 25 translations by the end of the semester
Sprint 1 - Sprint 2 - Sprint 3
Collaborative idea generation document
Here you can find our Product Backlog
Here you can see our SCRUM meetings
- General:
- In general we as a team communicate in increments; we do not all have one group call all at once as time zones and/or commitments keep us all from being in one place at the same time, but we manage to all keep up to date with our google hangout, that Dr. Scharff initiated, by updating everyone there and checking regularly to catch up what we have missed.
- Skype:
- Zainab and I (Sal) spoke over Skype last week. We spoke about each others life to get a perspective of different lives.
- Hangout:
- Mgeni and I (Sal) have been communicating via hangouts to both find out about each others lives and also about deadlines.
- Skype:
- Zainab and I (Sal) will be messaging over Skype today [02.04.14]
The calendar of the project with deadlines is available here: http://bit.ly/1jDkuHT
- iOS as well
- GitHub and git
- Google groups / hangout / calendar
- Draw.io
- Photoshop
- US March presentation
- Vitsu's presentation response:
- [Sal T] As straightforward as this may sound, in software development, it is important to center design around the user because your goal is for your software to be used, and in order to have your software used it needs to be focused around the user: what is the users experience with your software like? Is it laid out intuitively? Thursday's exercise related to software development in that it brought to our attention the details we hadn't previously thought of, making an abstracted physical example of what we were doing lent us insight from the users' perspective. From the exercise, I learned that your objective should be clear and present. I also learned that you should try to find the happy medium for getting a users' attention while not being distracting, leading the user away from the goal of the app. This exercise helped me better understand the point of user of the user by seeing other’s demonstrations of their app idea, and what I was able to do was be the user for once during this process, and it lent me insight into how a user would see the abstraction of an app. The exercise has impacted our app in our approach to clarifying ourselves throughout the app.
[Zanzibar March presentation] (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3WDj1zoTKuMME50NlVnN2NwcUk/edit?usp=sharing)