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Posted to users@flex.apache.org by mark goldin <ma...@gmail.com> on 2015/08/26 18:37:22 UTC
OT: how do you start designing a large project
This is is out of topic but can someone please share personal
experience/other resources about how do you start designing a new pretty
large project? What I mean is that every web based application would have
UI and a backend and they both non existent for the new project. Would you
start designing your UI based on business requirements and then proceed to
database already knowing what the UI needs or would you start designing a
solid database foundation first?
Thanks
Re: OT: how do you start designing a large project
Posted by Hans Nuecke <hn...@vservu.de>.
This might be a bit off-topic, because useful for smaller projects also.
Reading "sketching" I thought it might be of help for some of you to
know about these two tools. Both help me "developing on paper" and
defining big portions of planned design and functionality before I start
my IDE.
balsamiq: http://support.balsamiq.com/customer/portal/articles/107999
this links to a tutorial, but you'll find the download link and more on
that page also
SimpleDiagrams: http://www.simplediagrams.com/support
As far as I know both make use of AS3/AIR; and probably Flex.
Regards
Hans
Am 27.08.2015 um 11:05 schrieb Tomislav Pokrajcic:
> I usually start from the middle - sketching objects/entities and
> operations that should be applied on them.
> Then goes a first version of workflow diagram for client-server
> communication and a design of server calls.
> At that point there's enough material to start sketching UI and
> normalizing data for a database.
> Usually I never get one side completely solid while there's design
> work to do on the other side, also the client-server workflow diagram
> get's heavily updated while working on UI mockups.
> It's also quite usual to discover missing points in functional
> requirements during UI/services/database design.
>
> Speaking of tools, I find it really helpful to use some spreadsheet
> for designing (and even documenting) object structures.
> In recent projects I used it heavily for linking my data structures to
> 3rd party objects, generating JSON test objects etc...
>
> Hope you find some of these tips helpful :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tomislav
>
> On 26.8.2015. 18:37, mark goldin wrote:
>> This is is out of topic but can someone please share personal
>> experience/other resources about how do you start designing a new pretty
>> large project? What I mean is that every web based application would
>> have
>> UI and a backend and they both non existent for the new project.
>> Would you
>> start designing your UI based on business requirements and then
>> proceed to
>> database already knowing what the UI needs or would you start
>> designing a
>> solid database foundation first?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
Re: OT: how do you start designing a large project
Posted by Tomislav Pokrajcic <to...@svemir.net>.
I usually start from the middle - sketching objects/entities and
operations that should be applied on them.
Then goes a first version of workflow diagram for client-server
communication and a design of server calls.
At that point there's enough material to start sketching UI and
normalizing data for a database.
Usually I never get one side completely solid while there's design work
to do on the other side, also the client-server workflow diagram get's
heavily updated while working on UI mockups.
It's also quite usual to discover missing points in functional
requirements during UI/services/database design.
Speaking of tools, I find it really helpful to use some spreadsheet for
designing (and even documenting) object structures.
In recent projects I used it heavily for linking my data structures to
3rd party objects, generating JSON test objects etc...
Hope you find some of these tips helpful :)
Cheers,
Tomislav
On 26.8.2015. 18:37, mark goldin wrote:
> This is is out of topic but can someone please share personal
> experience/other resources about how do you start designing a new pretty
> large project? What I mean is that every web based application would have
> UI and a backend and they both non existent for the new project. Would you
> start designing your UI based on business requirements and then proceed to
> database already knowing what the UI needs or would you start designing a
> solid database foundation first?
>
> Thanks
>
RE: OT: how do you start designing a large project
Posted by Miguel Ferreira <mi...@hotmail.com>.
Mark,
I will start with simple flow diagrams and user cases.
If you more a visual person you can use some mock-ups to help you to orientate your project goal.
Don't try to do everything in one step. Set milestones for your project.
For the technical side:
UISERVER (Back end + DB)
Choose your technologies and frame works that will help achieve your goal.
For the UI side i prefer MVC. But, you should choose the one that fits you better or your team.
For a good project I like to use this keywords:SOLIDKISSDRY
When we respect this basis we create good base for your project to grow.
Congrats for the new project!
Miguel
> From: markzolotoy@gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:37:22 +0000
> Subject: OT: how do you start designing a large project
> To: users@flex.apache.org
>
> This is is out of topic but can someone please share personal
> experience/other resources about how do you start designing a new pretty
> large project? What I mean is that every web based application would have
> UI and a backend and they both non existent for the new project. Would you
> start designing your UI based on business requirements and then proceed to
> database already knowing what the UI needs or would you start designing a
> solid database foundation first?
>
> Thanks