JC SMiley Portfolio

The biggest challenge was constantly redesigning the app for the growing needs of my daughter. The app needed to display a range of tests, different types of tests, and combined tests to repersent final exams by subject.

Another challenge was to gamify the experience. HTML5's local-storage, animation, and new functionality was develop to enhanace the user experience and build confidence.

My boss gave me the challenge of deploying the app behind a login page and hiding sensitive information. Heroku, Node, and Express was use to re-develop and deploy a production version to meet these new requirements.

I used this project to learn MaterializeCSS

During user testing several new requirements was found out.

The app needed to be deployed as a Windows application on laptops using GitHub's Electron, Node, and Express. New functionality to dynamically create and download a PDF of the violations found and a wizard to help setup an inspection.

User testing presented some major user's experience and interface issues with the project.

Several buttons' functionality had to be combined to make the app more user friendly. Keyboard shortcuts was introduced to allow testing on a laptop.

A list of answers had to be displayed regardless of mobile or desktop device.

The biggest challenge was learning to use Heroku, Node, and Express for the first time. I had to learn how to write most of my logic on the server and send the finish data via APIs to the client application.

An example is a project requirement that players couldn't see each other weight. An API was used to send certain information based on login or weight entered from the server to be displayed on the client device.

The biggest challenge was failing to convert the demo into a Electron desktop app. The solution was to learn about progressive web apps and successfully re-develop the app as one.

Other major hurdle was learning React and redesigning the app after user testing came back negative.