It’s been a few weeks since the end of the final round of voting. Now that everyone’s had time to decompress, development on Cookbook has begun. We’re trying to get it out the door as quickly as possible.
So far, everything has been chugging along at a reasonable pace. We’re focused on just the basic stuff at this point, such as the interfaces for recipe management and editing. The more exciting features will be added later. Whether or not there will be any public betas, that’s up to the developers, though I do think that they will start appearing towards the end of the development cycle.
Right now, we’re also in the process of retooling the basic Cookbook interface. While the original UI in the mock-ups theoretically worked okay, we thought that it could be even better. What the final application will look like, no one knows at this point, but it may be quite different from what I had originally conceptualized.
One of the problems I’ve found in my mock-ups was the sidebar; it did too much and once you had more than a handful of recipes, the pane would become difficult to manage and navigate. The solution that we’re working on will change the layout of the main Cookbook window somewhat, but I think the original concept will still be retained. Furthermore, we’re also playing around with different window themes, as the current Unified Aqua window may seem a little generic for a culinary application.
So that’s it for now. I should note, development will probably be on hiatus this week, seeing how it is Wii launch day, and that both me and most of the My Dream App staff have our units. Woooooooo! (My Wii console code is 7765 4366 1246 4130.)
