Castles ·
Every Castle’s page, redrawn.
A Castle’s name gets the whole width, what you can do there sits beside it, and its upcoming gambits run on a row you can swipe, each with a small drawing that moves when you point at it (or by itself, on a phone).
The short version
- The Castle’s name has the page’s whole width: no more club names folded onto two lines
- Join, Follow and Share in one row, with everything they share one tap away
- Upcoming gambits on a row you can swipe, a card and a half at a time on a phone
- A clock for open games, a café table for meetups, a row of boards for tournaments, and a rook on every Castle’s photo
A Castle’s page is its front door, and ours had a coat rack in the way. The name shared its line with the join box, so a club called “Atlanta Checkmate Club” came out on two lines, and every button came with a paragraph. Now the name gets the page’s whole width, with where, when and how many under it.
Beside it: Join, Follow, Share. Joining still means an organizer lets you in, and the page says so in one line. Everything a request or a follow shares, and with whom, is under “What’s shared”, one tap away, in the same words as before. Once you’ve asked, your pink copy of the request sits there until an organizer says yes.
Upcoming gambits now run edge to edge on a row you can swipe. Each card has a drawing of what kind of gambit it is: a chess clock for an open game, a café table for a meetup, a row of boards for a tournament. Point at one and it answers. Press a side of the clock and the other player’s time starts; pull up a stool; stand up a board’s table tent.
On a phone, where there’s nothing to point with, each drawing plays its part once as it comes into view, then sits still. And every Castle’s photo now has a rook standing in its corner, the same boxwood rook as on our front page. Move your mouse and it turns to keep an eye on you. Castles are like that.
The drawings are only drawings: the page shows nobody new, and still never lists who’s going.