Screen by screen
What the app actually looks like.
Ten screens across four flows. Real exhibitions, real objects, real hours, so the museum can judge this against what they actually have rather than against a demo.
Flow 1 · Visit
Open the app in the parking lot, know what to doA Compromised Freedom
250 Years of Black Life in Virginia
Home
Hours and status first. Everything a visitor needs in the next ten minutes.
General admission
Tickets
Bib numbers and partner codes apply here, so the front desk stops doing it by hand.
Works offline. The armory's brick walls eat cell signal.
Gallery map
Downloaded with the app so it still works inside an 1895 building.
Flow 2 · Explore
Standing in front of an object, or sitting in OhioA Compromised Freedom
250 Years of Black Life in Virginia
On viewExhibition detail
Same screen serves the visitor and the person who will only ever see it virtually.
The White Lion
Ship model · Marcus Dueñas
Built from toilet paper, instant coffee, powdered creamer, bedsheet threads, floor wax and black acrylic paint.
Object view
Reached by scanning the label number. Room for the story wall text cannot hold.
Point Comfort
Hampton · 1619 arrival site
Statewide map
The museum as one stop on a trail, not the whole destination.
Collections search
The reason a researcher in Chicago keeps the app installed.
Growing up on Second Street
Recorded 2019 · 41 minutes
“You could get your hair done, cash a check, buy a dress and hear a band without ever leaving the block.”
Oral history player
Transcripts on every track, so it is searchable and accessible.
Flow 3 · Contribute
The public stops being an audienceTell us about it
An archivist reviews every submission. You keep the original.
ContinueAdd to the archive
Three steps. The guarantee that they keep the original is the part that gets people to do it.
What did your grandmother keep that nobody else wanted?
You review before anything is submitted.
Stop and reviewRecord a memory
A rotating prompt lowers the bar. Most people freeze at a blank screen.
Sit with a researcher
45 minutes, in person or by video
Book a researcher
Video slots open the genealogy desk to people who cannot drive to Leigh Street.
Flow 4 · Support
Giving should not require a zip codeChoose a level
Beyond Virginia trades free admission for collections access and early program registration. Built for members who will never walk in.
JoinMembership
A tier for out-of-state members is the single biggest revenue idea in here.
Support the work
Receipt emailed immediately for tax records.
Give $100 monthlyGive
Monthly preselected, employer match surfaced, memorial gifts built in.
What this is
Layout and content, not final visual design.
These screens show what goes where and what each one is for. Photography, iconography and final type come after the museum signs off on the structure.