Touch Screen Building Directory

I lead the team of people for Student Unions & Activities at the University of Minnesota who built this touch screen building directory installed in Coffman Memorial Union. The directory is a web app running in WebKit on a Mac Mini attached to a touch screen monitor. No Flash was used. Many of the graphic elements are built entirely with CSS3. The 3D floor diagrams were created with Google SketchUp. We used a usability test driven design process. We were able to completely redesign portions of the project in the week before it launched based on direct user feedback. We are continuing to test and make iterative improvements to the directory. Special thanks to the totally epic team that made this possible: Ellie, Ethan, Kamran, Ken, Sungho, and Trent. My role included project management, creative direction, information architecture (IA), core PHP and MySQL work, as well as JavaScript work on the drag-and-drop administrative tool for the map data.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• touch
• screen
• touchscreen
• building
• directory
• web
• app
• coffman
• university
• minnesota
• sketchup
• application
• epic
• awesome

[eckerz13ful]

nice one! Our thesis somehow relate on this.

[mstyle028]

@thehms1 LOL. whats' fake in here?? im a graphic artist and designing like that right now.. LOL and this digital wayfinder is simply amazing :)

[thehms1]

Fakeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[spellcoder]

Very nicely done, it looks very usefull, simple to use, modern... And as a web application it could be make available both locally or on the internet. I think interfaces like this will appear in zoo's, holiday parks and big hotels in the (near) future.