Normal Modes Main checklist

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Normal Modes master checklist

Design

• Sim folder and design doc created (Date: 02/12/2020)
  • Create sim folder in PhET Sim Design Folder using phet-docs account
  • Place design doc in the sim folder
• Legacy sim docs/info gathered
  • Sim suggestions doc reviewed
  • Unfuddle tickets reviewed (searching tickets)
• Learning goals and standards identified (Date: 02/12/2020)
• Design concept complete (Date: 02/12/2020)
• Wireframes complete (Date: 03/04/2020)
• Mockups complete (Date: 03/16/2020)
  • Mockups checked for colorblind and greyscale
• Features for PhET-iO discussion
• Interviews complete (Date: //)
  • Results reported to team
  • Notes pasted into design doc
  • Back-up of interviews
• Lead designer "sign off" (Date: //)
  • Performance acceptable
  • Carefully review ?showPointerAreas
  • No new feature requests
• Pre-publication items
  • Auxilary screenshots (up to 3 additional)
  • Screen-specific screenshots for metadata service (see naming convention)
  • Accessories (keywords, categories, description, learning goals, related sims, NSDL)
  • Accessibility features
  • Email announcement language
  • Teacher Guide created, uploaded, and added to sim design folder
  • Sim primer draft
  • LoL icons for each screen created and uploaded to Drive
  • LoL metadata for each screen (description, vocab words, questions for before/after sim use)
• Post-publication items
  • Share new features, design challenges, and treats with group!
  • Review legacy gold star activities, copy over if appropriate
  • Email announcement language
  • Deliver to Legends of Learning
  • Sim primer (create issue, publish ideally within 1 month of live sim)
  • Hold postmortem if applicable (Date: //)

Implementation

• Repository created (Date: 2/7/20)
  • Simulation added to responsible_dev.md
  • N/A Use grunt create-sim in perennial (see --help for arguments) to create the repository structure
  • Collaborators added (Developer team, QA team, designers, etc)
  • standard GitHub label set applied
  • repository added to perennial/data/active-repos
• Development started (N/A contributed by 3rd-party)
• Sim is "feature complete" (Date: 2/7/20 - accepted from 3rd party)
• Code review completed (Date: 2/10/20)
• Pre-publication items
  • Main screenshot (read this)
  • Verify credits with lead (Team, Contributors, QA, Graphic Arts, Sound Design, any Thanks)
• Published (Date: //)
  • Mark the sim as published in responsible_dev.md

QA

• Dev testing started (Date: //)
• Dev testing completed (Date: //)
• First RC published (Date: //)
  • Test matrices put in Testing Matrices Folder
• RC testing completed (Date: //)