University Campus Info System
Indiana University (2 mo.)
Indiana University was way ahead of the game in 1986 when they started looking into setting up a campus-wide interactive network.
University Information System
Disc International and Prime Computer approached us to model a large scale university campus information system.
- Provided a clickable site model that conformed to the workflow and served as design guide for the development team.
Our interactive prototype pages were all linked together in a mini-site that gave the school administration a good sense of how their campus system might look:
- Course Registration
- Directory of Students and Faculty
- School Services
- Campus Map
- Online educational courses
- Recreation & Events
- Chat Boards
Design Productivity Tools & Consultation
We licensed our Textup Context Management System and other tools to Indiana U so that they could produce and manage their campus-wide information system. The challenge for us was that the pages had to be viewable on a broad range of devices, including "dumb" terminals and (most significantly) on the Apple computer platform.
The NAPLPS videotex standard allowed us to produce a site with graphically sophisticated layouts and images that could be viewed - simultaneously and seamlessly - on different microcomputers.
The biggest creative challenge was designing an interactive map of the physical campus, hyperlinked to university services. Fortunately, the NAPLPS vectorgraphic display protocol we were using allowed us to create pages that were graphically sophisticated, easily shared, and device independent.
Education, Customer Self-service, This project was designed to demonstrate the competitiveness of Prime minicomputers and Disc International hosting software, NAPLPS vector graphics
Note: The pages displayed here were designed using the limited 16-color palette then standard for most PC's.