A UI for Yachts called Intelisea – this one is for Hugh

A UI for the yacht business. “the current UI is like DOS…”

The company built prototype in flash 8. work with that or flex2?  The company decided to be ahead of the game by targeting Adobe’s next generation platform. Intelisea via Westport.

The company has built a very slick looking app for monitoring pumps, fuel, lights, security and everything else. it will work on the big screen or in cabin touchscreens.

RFID for manoverboard, or turning on the lights.

“can we not give tags to certain people” – touche’

barometric pressure. tides, weather- gives you the closest tide station. downloads weather information for xm satellite. map to buoys.

“we’re still learning what is most useful to the crew. one suggestion – the captain said we were in rough sea, and i couldnt see the speed we were travelling at.”

“10Hz – ten updates a second, you need a really fast UI.” – which updates without a refresh click, obviously.

the back end is .NET. interfaces to hardware, moxa for serial to tcp. .NET broadcast to all the UIs. UI logs in with XML socket 

 

My main complaint. I am not sure the app isn’t too rich to be truly useful. The story about the UI not being legible in choppy waters is a very interesting pointer for the need for users early in the dev process.

 

Please excuse the rough liveblog style. I called this out for Hugh because of his yacht connections. Something for fenderkicker to look at?

 

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