A MONTH OF FAMILY
December hasn't been the most productive month of my year, however it has been rich in quality time with my friends and family who I don't get to see very often. It was a nice refresher.
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Playing Cards
For the new year I wanted to create a deck based around the theme of a calendar. What better calendar to do but the zodiac one.
It features all 12 zodiac signs and their respective star chart. What I realised with the Christmas cards is that it impacts gameplay a lot to have the black and red signifiers. For the ace I decided to put the horoscope chart.
I am almost out of stock of cards. I currently have 14 Rummy cards and 4 Christmas cards, having given away and sold 28 decks. Get them at my store while supplies last.
App Work
Regarding FurnitureDB it has not received any effort from me this month and that is somewhat reflected in visitor numbers. Reaching only 60 visitors and only 3 returning visitors. My next focus regarding FurnitureDB will be to finish features and focusing on user retention.
However the Rommy app has been receiving some attention over the holidays. With many games being played and people fluctuating in Elo. It received a new rule page which features the rules in both Icelandic and English. I am inspired to carry the UI from that page into the app and release it as an app on the app store.
Most of my work this month however when to Ofaní a swimming pool tracker. It was made with Dreamflow a new tool I am trying out and so far I like it. However it is a relatively new tool so it lacks a lot of features and has room for improvement.
The app is nearing completion and is scheduled to hit the app stores in January. This is a big milestone as that makes it my first app officially released. I have been the promotional graphics for it.
The TV Tracker is currently on the year 2000 with 32.255 shows! Only 25 years of shows to reach current day of shows. It will take a while, a couple of months more so I am not prioritising work on the TV Tracker.
View the rule page for Rommy
View the blog post where I talk about TV Tracker mobile development.
Bernburg.is
The website was somewhat of an after though this month. However I now have a new exciting project to add soon, that being Ofaní.
I want to work hard on it in January given that it's still receiving over 100 unique visitors each month. My primary focus will be on adding the new projects as well as adding more things to my store. Currently all my cards have been sold in person but I want to sell items through my online store.
To help with that I want to rework how I handle the front end of the store to make it easier to add products, update stock and make my life easier in general.
Anello
I have completed the photograph flow when creating a listing and I am reaching completion on the sell flow.
Next up is adding all the additional fields and completing the product page. After that it's draft functionality.
I am also working on the dashboard in combination with the app.
With the planned launch in June / July I have to push hard, most of my app time focus will be set on Anello over my other apps, now that I have almost completed Ofaní.
Cleaning Out My Closet
I went to an booth selling place in Iceland. Where you get a booth in a store for a week and people can buy your clothes, meaning I only have to fill the booth with clothes and the store does the rest of the work.
This worked well and I got a couple of sales, however the second half of my week was during Christmas time so not many people were buying used clothes.
I sold around 10 clothes for a good amount of money, however I am more pleased with getting rid of the clothes and them finding a new home over the money made.
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School
First two weeks of December were dedicated to finishing this semester. I had almost wrapped up all my other classes so my focus was set on my design research project.
I had to finalise the floor plan and develop three rooms that were picked by my professor. I fell short on time with the three rooms due to my floor plan not being approved until the last minute. I am very pleased with my floor plan.
I also had a side task of developing a 5x5 conceptual room for a non human user, which was a fun exercise on creativity.
You can look at my final presentation of the semester by clicking here.
I have to do some studying over the break but nothing major.
Framer Creator
On the contrary to my plan I have not spent any time developing new components or working on templates.
My flip card has reached over 4.000 views and is nearing 1000 installs. I have made one sale of the product gallery from a web design studio.
I also discovered one of my component in use which is a really fulfilling feeling, making me inspired to make more.
This month I also received the first application for an affiliate, which I have accepted.
What is up for January?
I want to start school well, having finished all the studying I need to do over the break. Starting strong so I can finish strong.
I want to release my first app Ofaní and get people using it. I doubt I will do much regarding Framer but it would be fun to release another component or finally a template.
I want to make steady progress on Anello, it doesn't need to be quick and much but doing a bit every week will stack up.