Week 5: Timeline

To educate students in the University of Hawaii about energy conservation we're creating a competition to encourage lower usage of electricity..

After our 1st milestone we were directed to begin setting a timeline mockup of the Kukui Cup dorm energy competition. Basically this week, we set out to make mockups of a specific time during the competition. In order to fully understand what we needed, we began mapping out these details for the competition site.

We are focusing on the week before the competition begins. The UH dorm energy issues site will contain material already before a competition starts. That is where we want to begin.

For my part I made mockups for one section of the site, energy data. This is a page that shows raw or contextualized data to a user. I plan on making several ways to display this data of energy consumption in order. What I've made so far is a chart for different time intervals and also a real time text display for 10 sec updates.

Our project milestone description:

http://code.google.com/p/uh-dorm-energy-competition/wiki/mockupMilestone2?ts=1266310825&updated=mockupMilestone2#energy_data

I have to admit that the selections aren't the best right now. I plan to add more functionality to the options. The hous selection is allowed to only choose a hour in the current day. And it's not quite clear for that either. I definitely need to make some changes to make the options more intuitive and explanatory.

In terms of the data I also want to look into other ways to show the user what the values mean and what it represents.

For this week we'll improve upon the mockups and then work on the mockups during the competition phase.