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.