Since the system is private for the moment, I thought I’d share some screen captures to show what it looks like. You can click on each image to see a larger version.
But first let me show you some of the preliminary designs we developed:
First designs - Explore section
First designs - Groups
Although we had some okay-looking designs, before coding the actual XHTML we decided to go back to what’s essential, and we created what we called “live wireframes”: functional code, integrated with the backend, that showed however no design feature. This allowed us to concentrate on functionality and set any visual enhancement aside. Our very first pre-alpha prototype worked with such a setup: a bare interface with no design features save for the logo on one corner.
Live wireframe - Explore section
Live wireframe - Add infopoint
Live wireframe - Infopoint list
Finally, we started over and we mixed those live wireframes with a new design which inherited from the first but borrowed ideas from those usable wireframes.
This is what our current prototype looks like:
Prototype - Explore (clustered)
Prototype - Explore (unclustered)
Prototype - Create Infopoint
I’ll post new screen captures as new sections/features become available.
