Station

After nailing down some real requirements for each view, we got to work on making a kit for the UI. Two major additions to the app were the upper carousel nav and collapsing footer nav. This allowed the user access to a great deal more functionality as well as the ability to swipe between content views naturally, way back before it was a standard pattern as it is today.

A focal point in the footer nav is the geolocate toggle button. This is the pin icon highlighted in Cali Sunset which is used to turn the geolocation filter on and off. When turned on, all content would be filtered to your location settings.

Next we focused on how users were meant to capture and create their content. Our first priorities were images, text, and text over images. Once we could establish that functionality succinctly across iOs and Android, we would scale up to rich media and live media.

We considered this type of progression necessary knowing that we would next be aiming for a seamless sharing experience to various social platforms.

Continuing to layer on the complexity, we added a multitude of customizations and controls to a created station. Things like broadcast radius, ‘time-to-live’, privacy, and Custom Station ID’s are a few of the major additions to the UX.

This also marked a good point to handle all the null / no data  states throughout the app. With every allowable user customization comes a required null state design. Such is the requirement for a flexible and modular design.