TGIF

TGIF (Thank God Its Friday). My question to this is - who is God? Anyway I think it's funny that people will say this sort of stuff. When I first heard of this I thought it was a file saving format.

Anyway it's Friday great and hope your doing well. I am thanks for asking. I just had a long and productive week. To start off I did approximately 58 wireframes in two days. I went to my first Mexican League Soccer game. These where two great and exciting things, but something not to exciting was I was running up and down the Bay Area to re-new my Health Insurance - which is a pain in the butt.

My Friday went well. I spend almost all day working at Google and finishing up more of the wireframes. I started the Composing SMS feature and todays fouces was on the Contacts feature. For the 6 hours that I was working I managed to get the Contacts design and have some clickable wireframes. Those wireframes where able to select on the different parent that the teacher wanted to see the contact info and wanted to edit.

In editing the contact info - there are several key things that are not common. One is setting a default language that the parent wants to receive his/her messages. Another feature is being able to add a secondary user and having both parents being notified at the same time if they prefer or if they do not.

There are many challenges when working with lots and lots of wireframes. Once you do up to 15 it starts getting confusing. Connecting each one to a specific window is not as easy. You need to be concentrated on what you're doing. There was one point of the process where I was amazed at what I did. I was able to get the text that was being sent translated into different languages. I want to make it easier for the end user to understand the message to I added a feature which will allow the teacher to select what languages to send the message. The teacher was able to select it and once it was selected and translated it will show what the message will look like. I saved it and tested and it worked and I was able to selected 6 different languages and it will translate into that langage. I felt great about doing this. For some weird reason I laughed and it made me happy to see this. I hope this serves as a great feature to users.

I think thats what Balsamiq wants you to do. Feel frustrated for sometime, but once it is exported you will feel great went it does what you want, if you connect it correctly. Like I've mentioned in the past it's a great tool and useful tool to use when designing for a new application or any idea that you have in mind.

Enjoy your weekend and also enjoy the rest of Friday and then enjoy the next and the next Fridays to come.