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An artist’s concert is only as good the venue they play in. She goes through ConcertBOS’s information about the venues, and narrows her selections down to small venues with excellent acoustics. Keeping in mind that she’s planning on attending a few concerts over the next few weeks, she tries to keep the concerts within a reasonable price range, and distance so that transportation isn’t a problem and she can fit all of them into her busy schedule. She’s found the perfect concert! With the help of ConcertBOS’s recommendations, she finally decides on The Smith Nothings.
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Designs
The Wizard
Salient Features
- uses a “wizard” like set of pages to actively limit how much information the user is looking at at one time and lets them focus their priorities in terms of what they are searching for, while offering the chance to change them.
- Many different visualization pages depending on the set of constraints that the user has chosen in order to make the information as easily available
- popup “previews” of artists
- visualizations filter both by what people listen to and what people have actively liked
Storyboard
In the above scenes, Sparklepony is led through a wizard that focuses her search based on timing and the artist she is seeking similar musical influences from.
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- One question page before you get visualized results
- Three main pages with visualizations: band cloud, calendar, friends multi-map
- All main pages have the same 2 sidebars: interested concerts, and filters (price and date)
- subpages have “details” instead of “filters”
Storyboard
Sparklepony starts by logging in with her Last.fm account.
She lands on a page that asks her what she's most interested in in a concert. She selects the "artist" option.
She's taken to a page that displays a graph of the artists she listens to on last.fm. Artists on tour have the date of their Boston concert displayed. Sliders on the right allow her to display information about the certain criteria (price, date, age restrictions) by coloring nodes on the graph. She drags several concerts she finds interesting to the sidebar.
She then notices that she can filter the selected concerts further by clicking the "explore these by friends" option at the bottom of the sidebar.
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