The Wimmer team worked with the gaming company to develop a search interface, search engine, and results page with maps, based on the company’s website. The client provided Wimmer with art assets and style sheets for user interface design, while Wimmer offered the support of its managing directors and Executive Leadership Team to the consultant resource we deployed to manage the development process. In addition, Wimmer collaborated with senior stakeholders to prioritize integration of the new tools across the client's existing brands, including Magic, RPGA, D&D Miniatures, Star Wars Miniatures, Axis & Allies Miniatures, and other organized play channels.
Technical skills used by the Wimmer team in this partnership included the following:
- Technical project management
- Development
- UI Design
Wimmer Solutions leveraged a technical project manager with SQL expertise to execute defined project goals throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), based on organized play event information drawn from OPIS data stored in a SQL server. The assigned developer created a data connector, developed a query mechanism to request information from two disparate data stores as specified by the end user, and then created a method for combining data from both stores into a single data set formatted for delivery to the UI. Working with a design team, we then created updatable search UIs for embedding into existing brand pages, as well as a search results page and customizable advanced search UI specific to particular brands and play formats. Our resources worked across writing and design teams to implement and integrate art and copy assets into final UI design in a manner consistent with existing company branding, and to create documents explaining the code base and interface design itself. Each UI developed needed to be consistent with existing branding, skin-able for individual products, and easily updatable by the client’s core development team. Code needed to be implemented using technologies currently supported by the team, conform to industry best practices and achieve compliance with Unicode and multi-byte character sets.
