Agenda: Welcome to the Next Hour of Your Life
1. Why Campus Life?
2. Our Goals & Ideas
3. Concept Mapping
4. Bullseye Diagram
Our Campus: Not Just Students
Students Personnel
Guests
undergraduategraduate
ARC
contract employeesfaculty & staff
trustees
conference servicescommunityprospects
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, butnot simpler.” — Albert Einstein
collaborative authoring
easy-to-use experience
easy to findstuff
keep thingsfresh
represent all depts.
only 411 peoplewant to know
encourage interaction
who cares aboutother schools?
trust the students
use multimedia
don’t assume
put stuff on‘display’
Getting There: Way more than 1/2 the battle
information architecture
1. Decide what information we want to share... ...and what our community wants
2. Come up with a categories3. Define a visual blueprint
the science of expressing a model for information
that’s why we need goalsand ideas — what are
we trying to do?
research
1. Web-based Surveys2. Card Sorting3. One-on-One Interviews
figuring out if we were actually right
production
1. Content Creation2. Design3. Programming4. Revisions
making it work
Diagrams: Could It Be ... Experiential Learning?
Concept Map Bullseye Diagram
will help us cluster &categorize information
nounsand verbs
nothing is irrelevantor “dumb.”
loose guide forcontent
CmapTools