detective board
A parallax home screen that helps children organize their hypotheses, and solve the main questions that the game centers around: Why are the animals sick? & Where is Monty? Since the design is intended for full-screen, the entire image will not fit but instead reveal more of the room when a player scrolls to the left or right. Students can organize their highlights, summaries, and images from the reading passages to help solve the case. The “Exit” button will be a fixed navigation item that will remain in the bottom right of the screen even when scrolling.
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design features
summaries
Clicking the yellow sticky note titled “summaries” ( on the left) will send you to the popup of a tablet screen housing the summaries of the passages they have already read through and saved. Children can filter through and choose the two they want to add to their detective board for each hypothesis.
highlights
Clicking the pinned-up paper above the filing cabinet titled “highlights” ( on the right) will send you to the popup of a tablet screen of saved highlights from the passages. Children can again filter through and choose five or fewer to display on the page for each hypothesis.
timeline
Below are draft popup tablet screens for the timeline feature within the detective board. This is a more visual way for the kids to understand the cause of the animal’s sickness. They can filter through the pictures sorted by reading passage images, the Wildlife Times “newspaper” images, and miscellaneous images.
Two iterations of the detective board logo for the main navigation page
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