Summary of design crit feedback:
Design findings:
- People currently cobble together different websites instead of sending people to the main IDRC website, because its too messy and hard to navigate
- What we do - Sending things like other project websites - FLOE, cities, SJRK, etc - to get an idea of what the projects are
- Learning about inclusive design - Sending articles or deep linked pages like what is inclusive design, the 3 dimensions, etc
- Education & outreach - stands out awkwardly, overlaps a lot with resources - take this out
- Pages that could potentially be merged
- Methods & processes and resources
- Events with news / blog
- News
- Figure out what we can archive
- Create tags for different types of content
Technology considerations:
- There’s a lot of duplicated information - ex. Mailing list links to the IDRC and its separate projects. If we want to have information in multiple places, we want to update it once - not every single time
- This should be considered the same time the IA is - understand what’s feasible from a technical POV
Sustainability:
- We should not have things on the website that we don’t have the capacity to keep up to date
- What kind of practices will we need to adopt to make sure the website is more successful than it has in the past?
- Worth another brainstorming session to identify those problems, and come up with solutions
Scope:
- Consider the main job of the IDRC website, vs the main job of the wiki and our other project websites - make sure those jobs are discrete, and don’t duplicate content
- Consider adding code of conduct, privacy policy, statement for diversity & inclusion etc
Full notes here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q6jXBCSYazTKxc6lT6gkWZ4E8jTZOXEduFm1iI1BYnI/edit?usp=sharing