SIGHTSEE is a location based mobile website that aims to assist in creating a better and more connected tourist experience with the local businesses in Eureka Springs.
SIGHTSEE provides tourists with a way to find better parking, recommends activities and places to visit according to the temperature and weather, and a chance to find out more about the many different local business owners and can better connect with them, what they do and why do the things they do.
Through interviews, I learned that the main problems that people in town were facing were parking, being unprepared for reduced tourist visits in the cold months, and lastly the lack of connection to tourists through social media.
My design idea is to tackle some of these problems through a mobile tourist site. It would mostly be geared towards the tourists but would benefit the town through visits. It would help with:
Finding parking
Connecting to the trolley system
Finding weather appropriate activities
Connection with the locals through getting to know the local businesses and events.