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GMT - Geospace and Media Tool
Our team took a task-centered design approach, and I was responsible for wireframes, scenarios, and specifications that addressed key use cases. I was also able to use my programming skills to prototype and later implement the design specs into the client.
The GMT's original news results model had to be revised at one point in the project. Often times the main headline couldn't summarize what the group of related stories was about. The GMT also went against the expected search behavior that all of the search results retrieved should contain at least some of the search terms.
As a solution, we changed the search to deliver only the news stories that match a user's query. We also incorporated keywords to supplement a news group's top headline, as well as two more headlines that are shown when the group is clicked or opened.
These changes were based on a prototype that a back-end developer and I built in Javascript, CSS, and jsp.
Related docs
News Cluster WireframeAs a news-on-map tool, map markers are used to locate stories. We are currently trying new, even basic, styles of markers that will change size based on the map zoom level. I created a few jsp pages so that we could observe each marker's weaknesses and strengths by dynamically switching styles and using real search data.
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