ExactTargetDev/ui-candidate-test — pull request #45 by DavidIAm (2014-03-02 23:45:51+00:00)
Title: David Ihnen's ui candidate test results

I was able to complete the javascript testing and dom manipulation portions of the test, you'll find them in the same files that they existed before.

The expectation of completing the visual ui tasks included here within 48 hours is in my judgement, for my knowledge level of ui development, not only unrealistic but absurd. It is my opinion that it will take up to three days for me to do extensive research on the libraries and toolkits available and start prototyping and making mistakes so I that I can get to the point that I begin to have a clear idea how much longer it will take to complete. Among the things I would need to learn are:

- extracting and building icons from the graphics in a useful way (pulse logo, menu, logo, window-corner-buttons, etc)
- how to create and/or apply gradients
- how the thin-line graphical elements in the calendar representation are created
- how to do radius corners on objects
- what if any window and slider-with-zoom-and-miniature widgets are available (never having seen anything quite like the pictured functionality before), and if they are, how to use them, if not, some extensive development to create such functionality
- about how drop shadows are managed
- about the apis available from google maps or foursquare to present the checkins map
- best practices for gui mvc layer code organization

Once I learned all that, I would need to...
- mock up data retrieval functions for the different types
- work in graphical program to obtain graphical resources
- build lists of the various types and their retrieved data from the mocks
- assemble the markup with the graphics in appropriate elements so they float into place.

In summary, if you actually expected me to create anything that looks even vaguely like that mockup in a short time frame... I obviously am at least a continent away from your targeted skillset.

I probably could make something that works roughly that way, without any graphics, pretty pictures, animations, or gradients in a day or so. But it seems fairly obvious that doesn't get close to meeting the requirements.

David