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Create an app to optimize Urban Dictionary searches, with a clean interface for easy browsing of slang terms. Develop a UI that simplifies searching, accessing definitions, and providing related words, examples, and popularity insights. Improve user experience by making embedded links searchable, displaying related terms, offering examples, and showing popularity rankings.
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UrbanDictionary-Search Mark Bumiller ECE 4564: Network Apps 9/13/2010
Overview • Urban Dictionary is used to keep up on slang • Design an app to streamline searching • Keep UI usable • Get Credit for Assignment_01
Design Elements • Three main components • UI • Simple Interface • Always usable • HTML • Get URL with search term • Correct formatting • ParseData • Find <Div> tags • Get Data within tags • Know when you’re looking at a word, definition, or word_not_defined, etc.
Screenshots Initial Screen
Screenshots Single Definition
Screenshots Multiple Definitions Scrollable
Screenshots Word isn’t defined (not found)
Comparison Browser Application
Potential Improvements • Make embedded links Searchable • Show related words • Show Examples • Show Popularity (thumbs up/down) • Show >7 definitions