Matt & I spent another productive couple of hours on our shiny new iPhone project on Tuesday, but Wednesday was a bit of a wipe-out as we had to do some proper work instead; read more after the jump.

• completed the initial interaction architecture design
• completed the first iRise online training module
• contacted our preferred development team
• contacted our preferred designer
• agreed to use Wordpress to power the support website, and found a plugin that extends Wordpress functionality to manage support requests & trouble tickets
• secured an appropriate Wordpress theme for the support website
• created a draft project plan in Basecamp, and set our Milestones
• changed our minds on our development company name, and secured a further 3 domain names

We also spent a boozy evening socialising with Richard Allum (Adviser Assist) & Ben Crockford (AXA Winterthur), and got quite a favourable reaction to our proposed app, in between rounds!

Basecamp & Harvest are already proving invaluable, and I particularly like the way Basecamp keeps track of our project-related email and automatically posts updates to it’s dashboard; very cool!

Tomorrow’s going to be fun; I’m going to attempt to build the first visualisation of our app using iRise. It’ll be a lot easier now that I’ve got hold of an iPhone simulation template. OneSpring’s iPhone SimDK for iRise toolkit includes an iPhone iDoc template with guides; Menu with buttons; Custom button template; Slider and button action behaviors; and multi-touch actions, and is going to save me the time & effort of trying to create all that stuff from scratch!

…and the new name for our development company? Moodoh. Because this just might turn out to be our very own cash cow…

The Slate:

Total effort so far: 10 man hours; Total spend: £74.50

Related posts:

1. iPhone project – Day 1 summary
2. iPhone project – 1 month in
3. iPhone Project – 1 week in

It’s been an exciting & interesting first day for The Fincision iPhone Project. Matt & I held a kick off meeting, and managed to achieve a bit more than we bargained for.

• Set up a project management framework using a combination of Basecamp and Harvest
• Agreed names for both our development company and the application itself
• Secured a domain name and hosting with Media Temple
• Completed an initial brainstorm to define the application and its potential features, and parked a number of phase 2 ideas
• Reviewed existing finance apps in the App Store
• Identified a potential developer for our app
• Agreed to hire a designer to make our app look beautiful
• Identified iRise Professional Edition as our preferred prototyping/visualisation tool
• Agreed nature & level of user support that will be offered alongside the app
• Identified & assigned next actions

Matt’s off to review the iPhone SDK and make contact with a developer, whilst I’m going to read through the ‘business’ angle of our potential relationship with Apple and get a day rate from a specialist graphical designer I’ve been keeping my eye on for a while! Next meeting, we’ll look at potential budget, set some project milestones and start work on requirements definition & high level processes. Oh, and we’ll probably have a beer or two as well; thirsty work, this iPhone development stuff…

PS. Thanks for the offer of help, Richard; funnily enough, your name did come up in our discussions today!

The Slate:

Total effort so far: 5 man hours; Total spend: £48.50 (but that doesn’t include, tea, coffee, coke, beer and muffins…)

Related posts:

1. iPhone project – Day 3 update
2. iPhone project – 1 month in
3. Whatever happened to the iPhone project?