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01. Research
Before starting the MyFDL project I studied historical applications and advances in widget-based or tile-based design, including the audit of functionality and capabilities, with a close eye on overall user experience and productivity.
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02. Design
When it comes to design, personalization and optimized workflows were paramount. The idea was to allow users to arrange the tiles to their specifications, with both Marco and Micro user interactions. Functions such as user-specified widget size, color, widget duplication, and user profiles pivots gave the user complete control.
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03. Develop
When it came to development, it is vastly important to hand developers a solutions that can be implemented. D3.js and Highcharts.js, for example, handle visualizations different. Some JS libraries may not be capable of rendering ideation. So, careful research and JS recommendations are provided so that users have confidence that not only can the ideation be implemented, but they have JS examples to make it happen.