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Artist, Designer, Creator, and Gamer | Former Electronic Arts Community Moderator on Battlefield Heroes under the alias "BoyOfTheEnders" | Created the game R.A.V.E with Surrealist Games | Music Machine @ EИDERS

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Design a UI interface for a fictional smartphone app!

in Tech

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Concept App: ShopPS

(The GPS of Shopping Apps)


Get ready to shop like never before!

  • Imagine if you could get all of your grocery shopping done fast with more than just a few internet searches.

  • Imagine you could see if the local big-box store has an item in-stock that you need.

  • Imagine never searching for the item in a store ever again.

With ShopPS you are directed through retail stores in a much more efficient way additionally you can get aproximate inventory counts for those stores.

Does this sound like something you need in your life? Then ShopPS is the app for you!

The Story:

Many years ago when GPS apps like Google Maps became a ubiquitous thing, a friend and I came up with an idea that we were sure would exist one day if we didn't create it ourselves. This idea has since been attempted in some forms over the years but not exactly like we had imagined it, yet. We wanted a GPS Style app for shopping at big stores like Wal-Mart or Target. We wanted to remove the need for customers to ask if a store has an item in-stock and where it is located.

Concept and Functionality:

The basic concept is a application/softaware/program for you mobile phone or handset that allows you to input a shopping list of, for example, grogeries and then simply go to the store and be directed along the most optimal path to pick those items up in the most optimal time.

Along with this feature could come many other features like information on sales and other deals or promotions the respective retail location may be running.

So for example in real-world applications you would ideally partner with companies like
Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, Costco, Target, Home Depot, Lowes, Best Buy and more...

Then you would then obtain layouts of each of these stores retail locations along with planograms with the information about the self locations of each item in inventory and on display.

Additionally the app could update each store in the database in an automated fashion by cross-checking pre-exisiting store inventory records and data. This would make it convenient for the consumer to know a close aproximation of what is in-stock at their prefered shopping place.

Finally from the end-user perspective the application allows simple and quick entry of a list of items, those items are then checked against their respective store location's database. All while their shopping route from the store's entry points to the store's check lanes is created for them. This allows the customer to seamelessly transition from making a list to getting in and out of the stores in a time respective and even more hassle free manor.


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To summarise the basic concept is a GPS style shopping application where you can input your desired items and store location, and be efficiently directed with real-time data to the items you want so you can get in and out of the store faster and cheaper than ever.

Thanks to the folks here at
JustAbout.com for the opportunity to share my idea and oncept.

Enjoy!

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Take a photo where technology and nature intersect!

in Tech

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I have thought long and hard about something I could capture that truly gives off a Tech X Nature vibe, and one of the most impressive sights near me I could think to aim a camera at is this:

These two striking hybrids of human technological advancement and nature; Lock and Dams and Power Plants, are essential to commerce and life in many places around the world.

These specific man-made structures powered cities and, to this day, allow boats to move between different water levels along the tributaries of the Mississippi River.

The Peoria Lock and Dam complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 10, 2004, and was originally designed and constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Chicago District, from 1937 to 1939.

Check out more about it if you are interested here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoria_Lock_and_Dam

In the background, two large smokestacks stand tall, these are remnants of the now-defunct Edwards coal-burning power plant, which officially closed at the end of 2022. The plant also utilized the river to cool and condense steam from its generating process, discharging the circulating water back into the river.

This view offers a truly awe-inspiring vista of human technological advancement and achievement.

Photo of the Peoria Illinois Lock and Dam and Edwards Power Plant as taken from the Shade-Lohmann Bridge.


The first photo was taken from the Shade-Lohmann Bridge, and the second images shows the bridges in the background which are an impressive pair of twin cantilever bridges that helps millions of vehicles a year travel over the Illinois interstates.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DH4AvPzvT_N/

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All in all this area is responsible for a lot of commerce in the region and is a huge contributing factor to the viability of such a location for my local cities and towns. We couldn't do it without them!

Thanks again to the Editors and Admins of JustAbout.com for another awesome opportunity for us to share cool things in our worlds.