How ShopLocal Envisions A Circular Based Adobe AIR Desktop Application

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Over the course of a few months, the delivery team here at ShopLocal embarked in a forward looking vision creation project of what an store promotions based Adobe AIR Desktop application might look like.  There were many different ideas that were discussed and refine along the way, but in the end what won out was the below concept AIR desktop app.  The cross-team collaboration was really high with Brendan Flynn (our resident Agile expert here at ShopLocal) helping lead the charge. All in all, I’m really excited to take the covers off this skunk works effort and get YOUR (yes, you there) feedback.  The team wants to iterate and refine as we work to bring this new product line (part of the suite of SmartProducts) to market so make sure to leave a comment.

CLICK HERE To View The Complete Set Of Circular Based Adobe AIR Desktop Application Design Concepts

This is one of an overall series of design concepts of what a ShopLocal created Adobe AIR desktop application may look like. It would be single retailer focused app that a user would need to download and install on their local machine.

Some features that this Adobe AIR desktop app would include:

• Offline / online mode (don’t have to be connected to the internet to use)
• Version tracking (of the AIR application)
• User notification on the desktop (within the task bar area on a Windows machine for example)
• Update notification (to make sure that all users are getting the most up-to-date version of the app)
• One-click install and upgrade (so that this is REALLY easy for a user)
• Multiple browse modes including full screen and page scrolling (to make use of being outside the browser)
• New user interaction types (such as “category stacks”)
• Bonus buys (which would be online only exclusive content to help create a value proposition for why a user would download the desktop app and not just use their normal browser based version of the weekly ad)
• Drag and drop items to a drawer (interactive way of collecting items to a “list”)
• New concept for how an item detail page relates back to it’s underlying circular page

To see Hi-Res versions of all the various screen states that make up this AIR desktop app, just click the image to view the complete set over on Flickr