The other day, I was thinking about how long we’ve been working on Yomomedia and realized that we’ve gone through a lot of changes in the past 2 1/2+ years. So, I started looking through some old files, original docs, write ups of what Yomomedia was going to be, initial sketches, competitive matrices, etc.
It’s amazing how many iterations we’ve gone through, how many things made it into the application and how many never saw the light of day. Overall, we’re still pretty close to the original vision, not a lot has changed around that although how things are presented and how things look have changed drastically. I thought it would be fun to take a look at where we started and where we’ve come to.
In this post, I’ll just focus on the web application and tomorrow, I’ll go through the mobile app. They’ve both been through a lot of changes.
Very early sketch of homepage
Another initial sketch
Getting a little more complete
More Content Focused
Variation of Content Focused Homepage
In the end, we thought we would skip the content on the homepage and focus on the app and how to use it. We thought it was more important to use that valuable real estate to educate so we came up with this. It gives a visitor 5 different ways to learn about the service as well as one click to test drive it:
Focusing on How It All Works
And then after a few changes to that and about a year went by, it morphed into this. We made it as simple as possible to download the mobile app:
And This Is Where We Are Today
Now, that’s just the home page and we had many, many revisions of each of those. The actual web application was a lot more involved. We started with detailed sketches of functionality, database schemas, must-haves, nice-to-haves and a lot more. The original web application looked something like this:
Home Page with Application
And then evolved into this:
Revised Application Interface
Revised Application Interface
Cleaner Version
And this is where we are today:
Today's Web Application Interface
Now Playing
Grouped View
And that’s where we’re at today. I’m sure it will change over the next few months as we add more features and find better ways of doing things. If nothing else, it’s a constant, iterative process. Check back tomorrow for the evolution of the Windows Mobile app.
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