ClientCard Framework + Seattle City Light Application
Description: Created communications framework for General Magic to support our vertical market application needs. Framework allowed for easy connection of back-end database rows (including relations) to cards in a Magic Cap environment. Users could easily create and edit cards on their mobile device, then upload changes either on the fly (e.g. via wireless link) or at the end of the day.
Seattle City Light application was one application created with the framework to support a specific need: inspection of public utility assets (e.g. street lights). I created other applications in markets including medical and public safety.
Distinctions:
I strongly believe the best way to create a useful framework is to address a specific need, then extract generalizations from there. This was a perfect example, starting from an application I created in 48 (sleepless) hours before a trade show, then pulling out a general-purpose framework that was used in a dozen more apps created by myself and others.
Created new user interface paradigms by extending concepts already proven successful in Magic Cap, for example tabbed cards that allowed us to keep several screenfuls of data cleanly in one "card."
See Also: Annotated Screenshots, ClientCard Design Document