Monday, November 2, 2009
Topic: The BLINK design process, content management system, dynamic navigation,
Participants: Penny White, Annie Krinsky, Sylvia Bass, Sonja Elson
UCSD hosts : Sydney Donahoe - Director Portal Services (ACT); Brett Pollak, Campus Web Manager; Allisa Becker, Operations Manager, Portal Services; Mojgan Amini, Director of Research Applications, User Experience.
Over lunch met with Jennifer Sturak, Managing Editor; Shelley Herron, Senior Analyst; Liz Morrison, Senior Writer.
A. BLINK overview - Sydney
1. In accordance with 1000 users' requests, Search field appears prominently on home page. It also above in banner section where the functionality is being re-worked. In future the people directory search will appear on left side, separately from standard Search fields.
2. SourceForge was used as planning tool (similar to JIRA)
3. Toolbox will feature all personal tools such as My Blink. After old right column dashboards were removed, ( hated by ACT staff) there was an outcry from users who lost bookmarks. Solution = 'service available in browsers'
4. Users perceive there was more news on old BLINK whereas the opposite is true.
The rotating news pics have been paused by default.
5. The Drive Time and Walk UCSD modules on right are confusing to users as they also represent news which appears on the left
Will be replaced with a weekly Poll widget to use as quiz - may purchase an application