Catching Bullets

 Once things progressed into Figma, I rapidly increased to 14 layers from 9 sketches.  The final count was 18, double the sketches.  I think this is to be expected, a project is always more complicated that first expected, double the layers isn't double the complexity, it just reflects a simplification of the original plan.  Things I learnt about app development and design: Do not be wedded to your initial mood board and colours.  They were there to kick start the creative process. Use the assets that are available for free downloads.  They save time Be careful of using the assets that available for free downloads.  They clutter up your build. Arrange you assets.  I have not done this.  It would probably be a fairly short (2 to 4 hour) process. Don't worry about arranging your assets, its more important to get something that works, aesthetics can come later.  It won't take long. Don't worry about discarding assets you brought in or desig...

 So, you've decided to make an app to share books.  What, how and who are the next decisions you need to make. What! What to call it.  After having a revelation at 3am that Omlet was the perfect name, and could be used an acronym I thought this was easy.  After brain storming with Noah about what Omlet could stand for I realized that 3am ideas were not always great.  I wanted to stick with O so OLE was born, the Online Literary Exchange.  The military gives you skills to make words fit to acronyms! How was dictated to a certain extent by one of the assignment criteria, use Figma.  This is nice because we don't need to learn coding (HTML/CSS/Java/etc) but it is a bit more involved than mechanisms like Carrd that I used for the previous assignment.  Figma develops an understanding of the relations and mechanisms needed for an effective application. Who took a lot more work.  Luckily I took a year long program in equipment procurement that had a...