Tuesday, March 12, 2013

HyperLocal News in JustInMind

Building on my earlier Balsamiq prototype here's another version of the HyperLocalNews app using the JustInMind framework.   This gives a much higher fidelity prototype which to the untrained eye might look more like the real thing.  The danger here is that a client might think you've already built the entire app :-)

Try clicking on the map markers:


Many thanks to creative commons sharing folk for the images to make the news stories more interesting:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7700821@N06/476498157/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danshouse/137241182/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/us-pacific-command/7658198802/

Note that this is different from the Balsamiq exported PDF in that it's all HTML, and there's no accidental scrolling up and down.  Getting a good look and feel of course relies on one knowing where to position things as they would appear on the appropriate smartphone.

2 comments:

Sam Joseph said...

Interesting that EveryBlock just shut down: http://gawker.com/5982486/hyperlocal-news-site-everyblock-shuts-down-unexpectedly

Sam Joseph said...

and interesting set of hyperlocal news sites here: http://openlylocal.com/hyperlocal_sites and nextdoor and wikiblock are two orgs taking over the space from everyblock ...