Project Olmsted
Challenge
Typically, land planning is a painstaking process, which spans several mediums, includes teams of designers/architects/engineers, and oftentimes, takes months/years to complete a given project: Olmsted takes this convoluted procedure and creates a seamless land planning experience.
Purportedly named after the father of landscape architecture Frederick Law Olmsted, Project Olmsted was designed to shorten the lifespan of land planning projects and ease the tasks/workloads of those associated.
Tactics
- Flash Software Prototype Presentation, with hybrid interactivity/self-guiding demonstration
- Simple interface aimed at establishing future software design foundations
- Comprehensive, established set of tools/widgets intended to cut land planning timeframes in half
- Groundbreaking software innovations, including real-time versioning history, as well as linear/non-linear project workflows
- Actionscript 2.0 framework, overlaid with and 2D GIS and vector/pixel data
Results
The outcome was a hybrid of proprietary coding, innovative design, and UI fundamentals that pushed the limits of Flash, and as a result, blurred the line between prototype, and what seemed to be actual software.
“You all at Noble have done an amazing job. You have given us a solid advantage in producing this simulation, we are able to quickly put something compelling in front of Land Planning customers that will get them thinking about the future possibilities and efficiency that technology can bring to their domain. The dedication and professionalism your team has shown throughout this project is exemplary. Thanks also for your responsiveness and attention to detail, we will let you know how the sessions go, please pass on the kudos to your team.”
- Director of Product Design at Autodesk, Inc.
