The average online ticket purchasing experience is boring one in which users muddle through drop down menus and poorly drawn venue maps in an effort to pick their desired seat. When the Chicago Symphony Orchestra redesigned their website, they wanted to give users the ability to select specific seats using an interface that accurately represented the experience of attending a CSO event. I worked with a team of ASP.NET developers to develop web services that provide section and seat data to Flash. We were careful to keep business logic external to Flash so that changes in the CSO ticketing policies could easy propogate to all ticket purchase locations. After receiving 3D renders from our artist, I tasked a team of interns with tracing all 3500 seats and assigning instance names that reflected each seat’s unique inventory ID while I began the development of the interface.

It seems like a simple project when described in a few sentences, but the resulting application is highly-complex and provides unparalleled functionality in a one-of-a-kind user experience.