poca/poca.github.com — Issue #10: What is the UI layout goal for mobile POCA?
Author: radonich
Created: 2012-01-30 19:33:42+00:00
State: open

Bob is visiting his mom in Salem, OR and wants to know where the closest clinic is to his mom's house. He pulls out his smartphone and opens his POCA app, which syncs with his current location and shows him the umpteen places near her house. What he sees is: A map with a quick start sentence "Zoom in/out by clicking the +/- button to see more clinics in your area" and a skin that matches the http://pocacoop.com skin, replete with yellow background and POCA logo.

Other features on his app include: Find a clinic by Name, zipcode, city, state with a very simple search field that accepts any of the aforementioned data. This search field could be at the top or bottom of the map, or it could be a disambiguation page from the start that asks: Would you like to see clinics near your current location or search by Clinic Name/Zipcode.City or State? and let people bifurcate themselves. My preference is to default to the current location map with a very easy to see option to search by other data.

Other awesome features: Let people "check-in" to their favorite clinics when they visit via facebook, foursquare or whatever ever other stalky internet caching features poeple like to use. Anything to easily promote clinics/Community acupuncture is desirable, I think.