Wine Review App
Apr 2012 - May 2012
For one of my first projects out of University designed an iPad app concept for Radpublic, a wine communication company. The app allows users to search for wine reviews. It was important the graphic style was targeted toward the emerging younger wine market while still remaining sophisticated.
The landing screen for Radpublics’ wine review app features a wall of wines. Each wine has a tile on which a bottle shot features. From this screen the user can browse all wines by scrolling vertically or horizontally.
Endless Library
As tiles move off the screen, they are randomly shuffled and inserted into a queue waiting to re-enter on the opposite side. The idea is to create a sense of an endless library of wine to browse, even though the database of wine reviews maybe relatively small. This solution is also scalable.
As the user browsers the endless wall of wine they can tap on any of the wine tiles to open a popover. The popover presents a larger image of the wine plus all the details relating to that wine, including the review and score.
Navigation
Amongst the wine tiles are navigation tiles that allow the user to explore the wine reviews via region, variety, or a search function. There is also a favorites list that can be curated by the user. As these navigation tiles move off screen, they re-enter the screen, on the opposite side, at a random location but unlike wine tiles they re-enter instantly, jumping the queue of wine tiles waiting to re-enter the screen.
