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Mobile Site for the Tao te Ching Statement of Confidentiality This proposal and supporting materials contain confidential and proprietary business information of Dana Lynn Studio. These materials may be printed or photocopied for use in evaluating the proposed project, but are not to be shared with other parties outside of Iowa State University. Submitted by: Dana Lynn Proposal Issued 03.15.2014 HCI573 Project Proposal Prepared for: Jivko Sinapov Tao te Ching PROPOSAL
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Mobile Site for the Tao te Ching

Statement of Confidentiality

This proposal and supporting materials contain confidential and proprietary

business information of Dana Lynn Studio. These materials may be printed or

photocopied for use in evaluating the proposed project, but are not to be shared

with other parties outside of Iowa State University.

Submitted by:

Dana Lynn

Proposal Issued

03.15.2014

HCI573 Project Proposal Prepared for:Jivko Sinapov

Tao te Ching

PROPOSAL

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My Tao te Ching is a mobile site that offers the complete Tao te Ching in a simple yet inspiring format. Each chapter is presented daily for 81 days. The content for each chapter is available as text or audio. The user can browse chapters, read them in order, bookmark them and add to favorites. The user can also send a chapter to someone by email. Discussion thread allows users to share and discuss the text in more detail.

Success is all in the planning.

My Tao te Ching

History Chapters

Create Favorite

Send Chapter

create e-card

email chapter

text

View favorites Reflect

Profile

Post Comments

View Comments

Send Message

Members

Create account

Join

Read Listen

SITEMAP

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Purpose

The primary purpose of this site is to celebrate the Tao te Ching.

The secondary purpose is to promote simplicity and to foster a

contemplative lifestyle.

Audience

The target audience for this site are users who are familiar

with The Tao te Ching and or familiar with Chinese literature or

philosophy in addition to those who are interested in meditation,

contemplative arts, Buddhism or other Eastern philosophies.

Need

There are not a lot of mobile offerings currently for this text.

This site can be classified with current offerings that support

meditation, mindfulness and simplicity.

Every project needs to start with a strong foundation.

BRIEF

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Every projectneeds to start with inspiration.

THE TAO

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Calm

This simple and clean design is

inspirational There are only 4 buttons on

the site. The visuals and audio are nature

inspired. There are only a few things you

can do on this site.

• Guided meditation

• Self timer

• Info utility

http://www.calm.com

Zen Habits

Leo Babauta is inspiring. He is a very

well know Buddhist in the San Francisco

Bay area. He writes a blog that is world

renown as having one of the largest blog

reader audiences following his content.

His content is primarily about simplicity.

The zen habits mobile app is simple and

clean and very unique:

• Read more

• Reminder

• Share

• Article tiles

• Create a poster

• Surprise me

• My posters

• Select a quote

http://zenhabits.net

INSPIRATION

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Insight Timer

Insight timer is a meditation app that has

well developed community aspect. The

design is a little lack luster. However the

user can see who is meditating at the

same time around the world in addition

to finding people in the local are who are

meditating. The user can connect with

many meditation groups through this app.

• send messages

• send friend requests

• journal, notes

https://insighttimer.com/

ToDo Task

ToDo Task is a simple to do list that is

gestural. Pull down to add a list item. The

checked off tasks appear at the bottom of

the list in grey.

• Pull down to add task

• Swipe right to complete task

• Swipe left to delte task

• Long press to reorder tasks

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/todo-task-

free/id580552733?mt=8

INSPIRATION

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Clean inspiration

This version has a clean design. Bottom

navigation includes:

• Previous

• Next

• Random

https://play.google.com/store/apps/

details?id=com.jonathanmota.taoteching

What does the competitionlook like?

There are less than a dozen mobile representations of the Tao te Ching. The examples of the Tao te Ching that are currently available can be improved. Many do however have useful features highlighted below.

EXEMPLARS

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Audio

This version offers the Tao te Ching in

audio. It also offers the full text as a long

continuous scroll or chapters.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/

details?id=com.threedos.taotechingfree

Styled like a book

This version is styled after a book. The

layout is quite cluttered and there are to

many colors.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/

details?id=com.brianbrownewalker.

taoteching

Multi-lingual

This version is translated into multiple

languages. This feature is outplanned for

future release.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/

details?id=com.phonegap.tao

EXEMPLARS

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What does the user experiencelook like?

This site will introduce the user to the Tao te Ching. The site content will be presented as the full text or as individual chapters. The user must first create a login by joining the site. From there the user may begin interacting with this ancient text. Additional features include the capability of creating a profile, interacting with discussion board, send messages, journal and create e-cards.

MOCKUPS

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user_id first_name last_name username password photo privacy_setting

User Table

Database

chapter_id chapter_number chapter_text

Chapter Table

user_id chapter_id

Bookmark Table

user_id, chapter_id

Favorites Table

discussion_id user_id discussion_text timestamp

Discussion Table

discussion_id sender_user_id recipient_user_id discussion_text timestamp

Messages Table

MYSQL

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WEEK 10 11 12 13 14 16

DESIGN

DEVELOPMENT

USER TESTING & QA

PRESENTATION

A well planned schedule helps to keep us all on track.

TIMELINE

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What is the Tao te Ching

The Tao Te Ching, Daodejing, or Dao De Jing referred to as the “way” is a Chinese classic text. According to tradition, it was written around 6th century BC by the sage Laozi (or Lao Tzu, “Old Master”), a record-keeper at the Zhou dynasty court, by whose name the text is known in China. The text’s true authorship and date of composition or compilation are still debated, although the oldest excavated text dates back to the late 4th century BC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Te_Ching

In the foundational text of Taoism, the Tao Te Ching, Laozi explains that Tao is not a ‘name’ for a ‘thing’ but the underlying natural order of the universe whose ultimate essence is difficult to circumscribe. Tao is thus “eternally nameless” (Dao De Jing-32. Laozi) and to be distinguished from the countless ‘named’ things which are considered to be its manifestations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao

Full project text

http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/taote-v4.html

Contact info

Dana Lynn Studio, LLC

Address 3815 Precision Drive Unit A

Fort Collins, CO 80528

Phone 970-682-8223

Email [email protected]

Website

www.danalynnstudio.com

anyway?

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