Design Study
To design a user interface or website design/layout it is necessary to understand the current design vocabulary used by people that are producing similar website for other similar groups. And what type of viewers will be likely to use this site. In this case I been designing sites for two cit governments and did my first written study about Richmond Department of Public Works. Overall I tried to understand the zeitgeist of the citizen/city worker grouping.
top 49 "best" Park and Rec Municipal Websites (with Details and Scoring)
Fri, 07/31/2009 - 20:45 — spiritAdminI am in a project to re-design a city website and as city websites age there is starting to a a common vocabulary that surfaces. Common missions also bring up common tasks and functions that a website would have to handle. This part of the study was for city Facilities that are open to the public to use for leisure time. The most common English word I could come up with was parks. And Over 80% of the site agreed that if you were looking for a Park you would be in the division of the website called Parks and Recreation.
Designing Primary Navigation For a City Website
Municipalities have a common mission but there is little standard about how they divide up duties that support the citizens. The customer base of there website is often a navigation nightmare due to the widely different classes of customers that they serve. A quick look at the customer base can show how different they are. I have divided the classes of customer as I have seen them to better understand the design problem.
