July 2014
Intermediate to advanced
642 pages
15h 11m
English
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Chapter 1. Mocking Up the Save The Child Application
Let’s start working on our web application, Save The Child. This web application will contain a form for donations to sick children and an embedded video player, will integrate with Google Maps, will have charts, and more. The goal is for you to gradually build all the functionality of this web application while we explain each step so that you can understand why we are building it the way we do. By the end of this chapter, you’ll have the web design and the first prototype of Save The Child.
The proliferation of mobile devices and web applications requires new skills for development of what used to be boring-looking enterprise applications. In the past, design of the user interface (UI) of most enterprise applications was done by developers to the best of their artistic abilities: a couple of buttons here, and a grid there, on a gray background. Business users were happy because they did not know any better. The application allowed users to process business data—what else was there to wish for? Enterprise business users used to be happy with any UI, as long as the application helped them to take care of their business.
But today’s business users are spoiled by nice-looking consumer-facing applications, and more often than not, new development starts by inviting a web designer to create a prototype of the future application. For example, we’ve seen some excellent (from the UI perspective) functional specifications for boring financial ...
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