I have created many chrome extensions for fun at work, with hundreds of users.
The requirements sound similar to two extension I designed and created to interact with splunk and mingle. Each of these has a custom UI to extract values, accept data entry, and update values to the web page.
I work with a few fantasy football players, and look forward to having them try out the extension, giving feedback on their experience to make it the best for all users.
I have been both developer and tester for web site development, so I tend to find and fix my own bugs.
I plan to :
- provide a you tube video each day, showing how to use the current version
- publish each version via the chrome web store, under my account.
- provide 4 or 5 ways to interact with the data, finally sticking to what feels best
- quickly get something to play with, to gather feedback and iterate
Questions:
- Will this be a separate browser tab, or tweaks and additions to the existing pages?
- Will this monitor pages and notify users when something has changed?
- How clean will the data be, any chance of rejecting a csv?
- Is there a custom Excel file for data entry or analysis?
- What are the APIs used on the web page to enter / retrieve data?
- How long has this API been in use?
- Will this extension deal with user id, or login information?
- Are the mock ups and story boards, or will I need to design the user flow?
- Do you want google analytics included, to track user actions? ( it is free, and awesome )