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| This first screen would be the screen that the user first sees upon opening a file set. At the top, there is a title bar indicating that the user is in analysis mode. There is a flat very lightly colored gray scale map of the area in question (pictured here is the northern two-thirds of Africa). Similarly to Google Maps, the user can drag around the map with the mouse, as well as zoom in and out using the controls on the left. In the top left there is a button that toggles between month and year (other option can maybe be added) and corresponds to the slider on the bottom. For instance, if you are in month-mode, the slider will move through monthly averages of the data from January to December while in yearly mode, it would move from 2000-2012 or something of that nature. On the top right of the screen, there is a button titled "Layers" which will generate a drop-down list upon click that will contain all the possible data sets the user can add to the map. The large arrow on the right of the screen will shift the user into the next mode (which for lack of a better name is referred to as the edit mode in this design). |
| If the user clicks the "layers" menu and selects an option, "demographics" (here written as population) for instance, the first that will occur is that a box with the name "demographics" and a small "x" will appear to the left of the "layers" menu. In addition, the data set will be added to the map. Color and specific shading can of course be determined later, but let's assume for this design that demographics is represented by the color red. In that case, a light red area representing the entire year's population area will appear on the map, and a bright, solid red will indicate the area covered in that |
| On this screen, we can see more details in Analysis mode, in terms of overlaying data sets and popping open the "layers" menu. It becomes more apparent as to how the user would use the program to visualize the exact set of data he'd like to analyze. |
| When the user is done setting the data, he can hit the arrow on the right side of the screen to move forward. The first thing to occur after this action occurs is that the title bar will change to "edit" mode (here written as "edit hotspots"), and a pop up window will appear as the background fades out in some way indicating inactivity. The window will indicate some backend sort of magic occurring (not the focus of this class, so we will just assume it exists) |
| This last frame is the "edit" mode screen that the user can actually interact with. Note that now the arrow is on the left side of the screen, indicating the way which the user can return to the analysis screen. |
