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Rex St. John
Jan 2012Microsoftapp

Halo Waypoint

The cross-platform companion app for the Halo community. My contribution was the responsive CSS work that made it hold together across phone and tablet form factors.

Numbers

10
Team size
2 months
Build time

Problem

343 Industries needed one companion app to serve the Halo community across every phone and tablet form factor, and a cross-platform build that works on the two devices in the office is not the same thing as one that works on the fleet.

Solution

I worked on the tablet UX development and formatting for iPad and mobile handsets — implementing functionality and handling the resolution changes that decide whether one build covers a real fleet or merely the devices on the team's desks.

Analysis

This was a contribution to a twelve-person build rather than a product I owned, and the honest version of it is narrow: cross-platform layout stabilization on someone else's architecture.

It is also the least glamorous and most load-bearing work on a Cordova project. Every form factor that breaks is a one star review from someone who does not care why.

Photos

  • The Halo Waypoint companion app on a dark background, showing player and community content across phone and tablet layouts
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