2011/05/16

1.Design Workshop
From our last class, we continued to develop the structure of a website for introducing designs that are useful for earthquake disasters. Designers were divided into 4 groups, so each group presented their research results and ideas..　

- Direction Team: “Website Plan”
Decided Design for Social Innovation’s goal as to “solve the problems of earthquake-stricken area with spice of entertainment”.

・Also, as a goal on a website, we aim to make it as a “textbook”(study book) for the world. Not only we are distributing information, we want to construct a website that is attractive to many people around the world, easy to use, interesting, and useful.

・As our first step, we will set our website as a place for us to meet people in the earthquake-stricken area.

・Created an image of our website’s user, which is called “persona.” We proposed our first persona as women in 20s who use SNS frequently.

・Also proposed data of how people think of media at their age.

Source:http://www.gamenews.ne.jp/archives/2008/03/10_49.html

- Video Team: “Length and Development of a Video”
・Digest clip: a video that introduces our activities

・Contents clip: introducing contents of our website that makes viewers want to visit our website

・Interview: share the interviews that we will be doing

・Program: pick up some activities or ideas that will be easier when told through video, and make it into a program

・Promotion clip: like an advertisement, a catchy video that will attract many people Out of these 5 ideas, we will be picking up the most effective one. We are expecting people to come to our website through other famous websites like YouTube. We will continue thinking the importance of videos in our website.

- Idea Team: “Submitting Ideas How-Tos, Visual, Categorizing”
・Research other websites that are useful when thinking about ways to display the ideas submitted by the users and ways to categorize them

・From collected data, we focused on 3 points- “design”, “function and usability”, “easiness and visually fun”: we made sample images according to them


- User Sign Up Team: “How to collect users & merit of being an user”　
Research other websites and collect information about structure of user membership system

・In order to collect many users, it is important to make it easy to sign up, easy to make use of functions, and easy to get involved. We set “One-Click” as our key word, and proposed actual websites for references.

・What can be done when became a user? Functions like submit, grade, favorite, my list, comment, blush up, were also brought up.

2. Discussion
・Organized each group’s opinion and verified: why do users come to our website for, what information will be needed, what can be done using that information. We strengthened our views about website’s plan and basis.

・Thought what should be a priority when making our website unique and differentiate from other existing websites.

・Relations between case studies and idea submit.

・We will be making “a website that collects new ideas for earthquake restoration, introduce them, open a contest and let users vote, and eventually put the selected ideas into practice. In order to let users understand, we have to introduce many kinds of case studies that might be helpful for earthquake disaster.”

3. Homework
・Think of website’s title

・Visualize website’s sample design and think about the structure of the website

・Make templates

・Introduce new ideas that we can put into practice

・Case study: refer to the websites, choose 2 case studies, and visualize it using templates

Source:INDEX http://nominateforindexaward.dk/Presentation

・Prepare presentation for Judit