The purpose of this project is to iterate the Miami-Dade County Permit inquiry page hoping to do the following:
- Bring in empathic, user-driven design to iterate on a product that displays permits associated under a given identifier: a name, a contracting license number, folio number or a property/address.
- We are making assumptions that the dashboard can be used both internally - by county employees - as well as externally, through homeowners or contractors.
- The application should be modular: we’re starting with permits, but dashboards could include other types of licensing, inspections, status checks, etc.
The first iteration of the prototype was presented as a static prototype using HTML, CSS and jQuery due to time restraints. We used the Railway font provided as part of the skeleton framework and light iconography was provided by Font-Awesome. Build tools included the use of the following: grunt, Sass, compass, assemble.io.
If we were the iterate on this prototype for the future, we would look into using stubbed JSON data to make this prototype dynamic (using a fixed data set that was provided from Code for Miami), and then investigate the feasibility to scrape single-form POST submissions (Ruby or Python library? KimonoLabs?) from the Miami-Dade County website itself.
Sophia Dengo, Mathias Gibson, Ernie Hsiung.