Thursday, April 1, 2010

I won!

Apparently, I got so busy that I forgot to update this...

I won 2nd place in the competition and netted $2,500 in prize money! I'm obviously very happy with the results of my hard work, and hey, that's not a bad pay check for a few days of work, eh?

About The Application
The idea behind this application is to have a way to visualize your own personal goals in the form of interactive images. The idea came to me as a way to motivate myself to stay on track with my school work. It was originally just going to be something that I did on poster board, but as I thought about it, I knew that it was something that a lot of other people would enjoy using.

What you see on the screen shot below is the end result of what the user would create with the application. I've omitted including the editor for the sake of brevity and clarity. Technologies used were Silverlight, JavaScript, XML, HTML, and CSS.

The editor would look almost identical to the viewer, with the exception that it would contain an image search box on the page, and you would be able to drag-and-drop images onto your canvas and save it when you were satisfied. Every property and element that you see in the viewer would be configurable in the editor. That is to say, all of the colors, fonts, borders, opacity, etc...

My ultimate goal is to host this software on a website in which users can sign-up and create their goal murals and then share them with their friends and family. It is very much a work in progress, but with some more work I'm confident that I can offer a useful and enjoyable experience for a lot of people with this application.


Pictures From The Weekend