Final Project Wireframes

Hi everyone,

Here are some of the wireframes for my final project:

My latest vision for the project is a news feed aggregator that would resemble the top picture to the right. It's a bit like Netvibes and a bit like Google reader. The main difference between this and existing aggregators is that this one will have multi-column format that's simple to glance through. You won't have to click on links to see the headlines. You only click if you want to read the whole article.

As you can see in the picture, each item will have some nav icons (the ones in the wireframe are just temporary) that will give the reader three options... 1. go to the article now 2. star the article and save it to a reading list... 3. close the article and hide it from view.

Another thing I am thinking about is whether to have all the items be various heights (as in picture #1 and #2) or whether to impose a standard size (as in picture #3). I'm leaning towards the various sizes, but I think it would be both easier and maybe more elegant if everything isthe same size. When I get further along, I'll probably mock up both ways and see which works better.

An important aspect of the site is the reading of the articles. In picture #4, you can see how I envisioned it. I really wanted to have the ability to keep my site on top and let it help the reader navigate through all the articles that were starred. I wanted to have the original article show up in a frame that people could comment on. However, I did some research and it seems that many news sites specifically forbid doing this with their pages. (D'oh!) So, I'm still pondering what to do. I might have just comments on the click through page (kind of like the way digg and reddit work).

Depending on what we go over in the next class, I would like to also incorporate some social networking aspects into the site. I would like to be able to show people the feeds based on most popular of the day/week/etc... (Does that count as something social?)

I'm not sure if I'm biting off too much or not. So far it seems doable! I guess we'll see.

I would love any comments you guys would care to share! Thanks!