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design, open data, social media and relevance

December 6th, 2010 · Comments Off on design, open data, social media and relevance · Uncategorized

Recently, inventor and writer Mark Pesce blogged about web 2.0 and underlying motivations for why people engage collaboratively on crowdsourced web projects. What I like about this post is how he has grounded design theory in a number of social behaviours that drive web 2.0 and social media: sharing, connecting, contributing, regulating, and iterating. It […]

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Mono re:coloured

November 30th, 2010 · Comments Off on Mono re:coloured · Uncategorized

This is our current take on colours – it injects two secondary colours which makes the mono a bit brighter without confusing the eye as much as the teal/orange version. Keep in mind that the block of red /green (see image) will normally be mostly hidden – this much colour is only while looking at […]

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Where mono and social meet.

November 29th, 2010 · Comments Off on Where mono and social meet. · Uncategorized

Here is a pass at integrating the two looks — social and mono. What we’re preferring is the `social gravity` look which looses the orange and moves the mono grey into a cool muted naval colour. It’s a little too close to UNSW blue possibly. Also included is an experiment where we just rolled the […]

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Design look and feel – the two ways of life.

November 25th, 2010 · Comments Off on Design look and feel – the two ways of life. · Uncategorized

Two directions for the look and feel. Note : we’re not looking at content or layout – just look and feel ( colours, line weights, treatment ). We’re calling these `social` and `mono`.

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Design references

November 19th, 2010 · Comments Off on Design references · Uncategorized

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the hard work of making things easy.

November 15th, 2010 · Comments Off on the hard work of making things easy. · Uncategorized

Huge meeting last Thursday with DAAO core team (Jo, Olivia and me) and the House of Laudanum team ( Zina, Snow and Lotte (who skyped in from Amsterdam). We talked a lot about the contributor- that is the person who will write accurate quality biographies and enter accurate relevant data in the metadata fields. When […]

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User Experience- meet Lotte Meijer

November 10th, 2010 · Comments Off on User Experience- meet Lotte Meijer · Uncategorized

We have begun our User Experience  design process. This is a very exciting stage of the project, where we really start getting a sense of the site will be like- how it will function and what it might look like.  It is also the time when all the hard questions have to be asked and […]

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Schema Design!

September 10th, 2010 · Comments Off on Schema Design! · Uncategorized

Its been a big week as we have been concentrating on Schema Design. We have  been analysing the new datasets that have been coming our way and continuing our phone and face to face interviews with CIs to clarify and refine exactly how we need to extend over coverage in the ares of Exhibitions, Organisations,  […]

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