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Finally, the user also have access to information about a specific specie that is interesting by clicking in the species icon (T4). It's important to remark that sometimes is hard for non-expert to identify that an animal in a picture is the same that is being observed in the tank so it will be important to produce good images that facilitates this recognition.
2) Sea Metaphor:
This design is inspired in a metaphor of the underwater environment. The idea is to present an underwater picture in which animals are clustered according to their locations in the aquarium so that species that are together in the aquarium are in the same cluster in the UI as well. These clusters are drawn near some rock or little sub-environment in the picture and this represent the location. Finally, an underwater diver representing the expert staff is displayed near the species involved in an informative session.
It is posible to click on animals, locations or divers an each one present the related information an also presents links to the other to options. For example, clicking over an animal shows information about the specie and also one button to related informative sessions and the location information.
This allows the user to have all the information linked to only one page. After clicking in one of the main options (an animal, diver or location), the new window is shown over the previous one and can be easily closed by clicking "x" so that the user can go back very easy if it was a mistake.
3) Thumbnail-styled groups of animals-locations-exhibitions:
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