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Feb 6th, 2021
When I imagined what I wanted in a dashboard, I thought of clean, minimal design, and only relevant information mattered for me.
About The Project
Here is my take on what I wanted in a crypto dashboard. I tried to track the currencies I was interested/invested in, relevant information that was important to me, and above all, minimal.
I ran into many implementation issues and spent more time than I'd like to admit figuring out how to build this dashboard. In the end, I omitted more than I wanted but was satisfied with the result. I'll touch more on that in the post.
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"Feature Rich" by omission.
I started this build as I do most of my builds, I brainstorm, research, prototype, and move on to the final build. Where I stumbled was during my brainstorming session. I had grandiose plans to add a Twitter feed that would count the number of times one of my selected "coins" were mentioned on Twitter and would have some tracker to keep a tally of the mentions. I would then use that data and somehow correlate it to the "coin" price.
Simple enough, right? Here's is where I ran into my first problem, how do I conflate that data. I spent some time researching this exactly, and I realized that talented, smart, and thoughtful data scientists are still trying to figure this out. I had to step back, remove my most prominent feature, realize even if I did get this to work, it had no meaning to me; therefore, it shouldn't be in the app.
Losing this feature caused a domino effect of sorts. I removed almost 50% of what I wanted to accomplish, and in the end, I was satisfied with my choices.
Brainstorm, Research, Prototype, and Build.
Conclusion
I was pretty close to letting this build get away from me. It used to happen to me all the time. I would think of all these ideas, of course, not write anything down and start coding. It wasn't until I started having a more disciplined approached that I would have a greater completion rate of my builds.
I have countless unfinished builds. Some are just single components. Others are unfinished projects. They all suffered the same fate.
One of the challenges (for me) when removing features is I can sometimes lose interest in the project, I was lucky those feelings didn't arise in the build, but I'm sure I may not be so fortunate in the future.