Mainframe GUI Mockup: Full Proposal

Below is the bulk of my proposal to Norfolk Southern: a 2-page display showing almost every feature represented by the 80 mainframe-like windows of the Macintosh application we built for Norfolk Southern.

The picture contains many clichés of the GUI world: "what you see is what you get," "point and click," and so on. Part of my goal in preparing this mockup, as with every user interface I have built, was to make the content as familiar and understandable as possible to the user. To that end, the proposal translates between Norfolk Southern's terminology (such as "reassign folder" and "burn folder") and Macintosh-standard terminology ("drag and drop," "the Trash"). I borrowed the idea for a "Shelf" from the NeXT brand of computers.

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