Here's a video of me talking a little bit about our brief. If you want the whole story read our written brief. :)
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Our Brief
Team name: The ultimate chocolate fish
The organisation: Diabetes NZ
Mission/vision of org: Th enhance the quality of life of people with diabetes.
Identified goal of project: Provide clear navigation from the Diabetes NZ website to the recipes section and make recipes section more of a prominent feature.
Current barriers: difficult and complicated content management system. Gathering all of the recipies needed may be difficult to compile. By developing the recipes section in html the pages can later be integrated into the website.
Typical client: Anyone who has Diabetes and is interested in finding out great recipes that they are able to eat. Also family members or friends cooking for someone with Diabetes. These people will likely be caregivers or parents, young and older adults who are able to cook for themselves or someone else. The recipes must be accessible and visually compelling to these people.
Possible design solutions: drop down menus for easy navigation, feature recipes to grab the attention of those looking for recipes, glossy images. Some sort of button or link to the recipes page. Search–able recipes. Flash animations to draw the eye of the target audience.
Evaluation of solutions: Drop down menus and a feature recipe on home page will be effective for allowing easy navigation and for providing information quickly about feature recipes. With our knowledge of html and dreamweaver we will be able to create these things. With the time we have and our teams skills flash animation will not be practical for us.
Proposed solution: A prominent shortcut or button to recipes from the current Diabetes NZ website homepage, feature recipes on homepage, two drop down menus to choose recipe, recipes pop up in new html page for easy indexing for search engines. Easy navigation within the recipes section of the site.
Focus of solution: to make recipes a bigger feature on their website, easier to access from home page and easier to navigate around. Also to make the recipes section look good with a suitable contemporary style.
Design approach: required elements - recipes, images of food, featured recipie to advertise a special recipe. Look and feel - contemporary, strong and fresh and glossy to appeal to the adult/parents/caregivers/elderly cooks cooking for people with diabetes or themselves.
Scope of work: Jayne - copyright clearance, getting style css sheets to us, sending us recipes and images. Us -Research recipes layouts on existing food and recipe websites. Find out ways to make sure Jayne can use what we do to add more recipes to the site without help.
Outscope of work: Clearance, integrating the new html recipe pages to existing website. (A web company called Squizz that Diabetes NZ already works with will help with integrating the work we do).
Technology to be used: Fireworks, Dreamweaver, html, css, internet (obviously).
Timeline: Jayne sends us recipes, style sheets and images by 30th latest. Start working on research/concepts on 28th. Working out how to do drop down boxes and javascript. Give Jayne our first concept by 1st Aug and check in with her again on 6th for any final changes that need to be made.
The organisation: Diabetes NZ
Mission/vision of org: Th enhance the quality of life of people with diabetes.
Identified goal of project: Provide clear navigation from the Diabetes NZ website to the recipes section and make recipes section more of a prominent feature.
Current barriers: difficult and complicated content management system. Gathering all of the recipies needed may be difficult to compile. By developing the recipes section in html the pages can later be integrated into the website.
Typical client: Anyone who has Diabetes and is interested in finding out great recipes that they are able to eat. Also family members or friends cooking for someone with Diabetes. These people will likely be caregivers or parents, young and older adults who are able to cook for themselves or someone else. The recipes must be accessible and visually compelling to these people.
Possible design solutions: drop down menus for easy navigation, feature recipes to grab the attention of those looking for recipes, glossy images. Some sort of button or link to the recipes page. Search–able recipes. Flash animations to draw the eye of the target audience.
Evaluation of solutions: Drop down menus and a feature recipe on home page will be effective for allowing easy navigation and for providing information quickly about feature recipes. With our knowledge of html and dreamweaver we will be able to create these things. With the time we have and our teams skills flash animation will not be practical for us.
Proposed solution: A prominent shortcut or button to recipes from the current Diabetes NZ website homepage, feature recipes on homepage, two drop down menus to choose recipe, recipes pop up in new html page for easy indexing for search engines. Easy navigation within the recipes section of the site.
Focus of solution: to make recipes a bigger feature on their website, easier to access from home page and easier to navigate around. Also to make the recipes section look good with a suitable contemporary style.
Design approach: required elements - recipes, images of food, featured recipie to advertise a special recipe. Look and feel - contemporary, strong and fresh and glossy to appeal to the adult/parents/caregivers/elderly cooks cooking for people with diabetes or themselves.
Scope of work: Jayne - copyright clearance, getting style css sheets to us, sending us recipes and images. Us -Research recipes layouts on existing food and recipe websites. Find out ways to make sure Jayne can use what we do to add more recipes to the site without help.
Outscope of work: Clearance, integrating the new html recipe pages to existing website. (A web company called Squizz that Diabetes NZ already works with will help with integrating the work we do).
Technology to be used: Fireworks, Dreamweaver, html, css, internet (obviously).
Timeline: Jayne sends us recipes, style sheets and images by 30th latest. Start working on research/concepts on 28th. Working out how to do drop down boxes and javascript. Give Jayne our first concept by 1st Aug and check in with her again on 6th for any final changes that need to be made.
On Thursday 24th we (Mikey, Elena and Shannon) met up with Jayne at the Diabetes New Zealand office where we learned about what the company does day to day, their values and the issues they have with their website currently. We were also introduced to the other staff at the office.
At the meeting we learned that, on a day to day basis, Jayne and her colleagues do things like talk to customers over the phone and answer their enquiries. They raise funds for the company. They prepare for the Diabetes Awareness Week and large conferences that occur each year. They also edit a magazine that includes encouraging material for people effected by diabetes. Managing the ever–changing details of their members is an ongoing task that is necessarily under taken daily also.
During the meeting Jayne gave us the an insight into Diabetes New Zealand's values. As an effective membership organisation thet provides local support they put people with diabetes first. They believe that people with diabetes can enjoy the best quality of life in the context of the person's condition and that those people and others who are at risk of diabetes should have prompt access to diagnosis and medical care of an international standard. They recognise that the power of collective unity and action so that all those effected by diabetes receive appropriately publicly funded support and treatment. One other thing that Diabetes New Zealand value is that they and the Diabetes societies are the response of a civil society where people take responsibility and act collectively and supportively in their circumstances.
The issues that have been addressed to Jayne at Diabetes New Zealand about the website is that it is difficult to navigate and although the information is very helpful it is not as easy to find as it could be. Jayne mentioned that drop down boxes would help making navigation easier. It is a very text heavy website which makes it less interesting for users. More images would help. A wide range of users means that it is more challenging to make the website easy for everyone as they may have different abilities and knowledge of the internet.
Their website is www.diabetes.org.nz if you want to have a look at what we will be working with.
At the meeting we learned that, on a day to day basis, Jayne and her colleagues do things like talk to customers over the phone and answer their enquiries. They raise funds for the company. They prepare for the Diabetes Awareness Week and large conferences that occur each year. They also edit a magazine that includes encouraging material for people effected by diabetes. Managing the ever–changing details of their members is an ongoing task that is necessarily under taken daily also.
During the meeting Jayne gave us the an insight into Diabetes New Zealand's values. As an effective membership organisation thet provides local support they put people with diabetes first. They believe that people with diabetes can enjoy the best quality of life in the context of the person's condition and that those people and others who are at risk of diabetes should have prompt access to diagnosis and medical care of an international standard. They recognise that the power of collective unity and action so that all those effected by diabetes receive appropriately publicly funded support and treatment. One other thing that Diabetes New Zealand value is that they and the Diabetes societies are the response of a civil society where people take responsibility and act collectively and supportively in their circumstances.
The issues that have been addressed to Jayne at Diabetes New Zealand about the website is that it is difficult to navigate and although the information is very helpful it is not as easy to find as it could be. Jayne mentioned that drop down boxes would help making navigation easier. It is a very text heavy website which makes it less interesting for users. More images would help. A wide range of users means that it is more challenging to make the website easy for everyone as they may have different abilities and knowledge of the internet.
Their website is www.diabetes.org.nz if you want to have a look at what we will be working with.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Meeting our organisation
Task Two update
We've set up a meeting with Jayne from Diabetes NZ for tomorrow at 1pm where we will get to know her and the organisation, and so she can meet us. We weren't able to set up a meeting any earlier but it will be good to meet before the workshop and then make our way to that together.
We've set up a meeting with Jayne from Diabetes NZ for tomorrow at 1pm where we will get to know her and the organisation, and so she can meet us. We weren't able to set up a meeting any earlier but it will be good to meet before the workshop and then make our way to that together.
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Ready for action!
So we've got the first step completed. Great! We're on our way to get stuck into this challenge....
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