Week 4: Our first MileStone

The Kukui Cup Competition development is underway in its fourth week. To educate students in the University of Hawaii about energy conservation we're creating a competition to encourage lower usage of electricity..

This past week our group really came together and talked over what we wanted to accomplish. In the end we actually got something done. Our meeting on friday was really productive. So it started on tuesday when we presented our findings and then set out to work on our own set of tasks. I ended up making mockups to show how users could look at a chart to determine their energy usage over an interval of time and also through monetary costs. I spent much of the time before friday on the mockups and thinking about how to display rankings.
During the meeting on friday we talked over what to do next. Professor Johnson had suggested previously on an email that we show what we had and start to focus on getting together a final product. So that's what we did. It turned out to be the most productive we've been in this entire project! We discussed the fundamental requirements this energy issues website and what was really important. We managed to get it down to four main pages, the home page, contacts page, resources page, and the Kukui Cup Competition page.
Once we got that down we started plotting out what was needed on those pages. Basically we did a lot of planning for what was needed. Over the weekend we set out to creature the pages and content. These are the mockups and graphics that I made.

These three mockups demonstrate different time intervals that a user can sample to show energy consumption. Also notice the cost of electricity on the top right corner of the chart.




This is the content I made specifically for our home page. It is a ranking diagram for students in the two dorms Mokihana and Lokelani. Each floor is competing to win their own type of prize concurrently with the dorm competition.

Although these meters aren't probably going to be used, I'd like to show how we're trying to display data in different ways for the students.

I really liked this pie chart because of it's simplicity. It can show users how they are progressing compared to the previous weeks in a quick intuitive way.


This last mockup is the competition page I presented to my group in our meeting today. It contains data for large intervals and also real time data that covers usage within 10-20 seconds. Some parts of this will be in the final product.

I think the meetings are essential to our progress in this project. We need to talk more about what needs to be done and generate new ideas in order to continue to improve upon this project.