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- JQuery Mobile is a new framework. It is still a bit immature and heavy to run on a mobile phone. Sometimes it is very slow to load and render.
- Sinatra provides a limited amount of functionality that would not allow us to scale up fully as opposed to Rails or Django.
Reflection
The biggest thing our team took away from the iterative design process is the idea that we are not the user. Throughout all of the prototyping and user testing, we were continually surprised that interaction methods we thought were intuitive confused users. Users also surprised us by attempting to use the interaction methods in ways we did not intend. Especially on a mobile app, it is necessary to conform enough with the platform that users can think in their "iPhone paradigm" but be unique enough to make the app intuitive and exciting.
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