Golf Guide Web Application
CS 547: Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction
In this class I worked in a group of three to create a golf guide web application built for mobile phones. The project was a great experience for me to use the design skills I have learned in mechanical engineering and apply them to a software project. My group used user-centered design to create an app titled "Golf Guru" that focused on the challenge of playing a new golf course for the first time. The app used a wiki-style user created database for hole-by-hole guides on how to play courses. The app features hole-by-hole analysis, satellite images via Google maps, personal notes, and a scorecard. In addition, we created a profile system where users could build a profile and view a history of their recent scores. The idea for the app was that golfers who played a course a lot could provide a hole-by-hole guide to visiting players. This was my first web production project but as an avid golfer I was able to contribute a lot to the content and interface of the app. The interface was made using JQuery Mobile and we used Django as a framework. Below is a one-slide introduction we created for the app (showing a hole from my home golf course).