2011/6/6

1.Categorize
We presented categories for case studies that were given as homework last week.

They were briefly categorized into six:

life, medical treatment, children, community, finance, and nuclear damage.

Each of them are specifically categorized further:

・Life (energy, food, water, housing, relocation)

・medical treatment (old people, mental care, medicines)

・children (evacuation, education, mental care)

・community (communication, city planning, safety, culture, tradition)

・finance (funds, employment)

・ nuclear damage (explanation, examples of Chernobyl, prevention, visualization, medical treatment, energy)

We first came up with what needs do victims have, then came up with words that will be used to look up these needs, and then narrowed them down according to the numbers that will be found using those words, in order to decide on these categories above.

2. How our website should be
- User　

…creators

- What will they ask for?

…possibilities for new businesses, information of the disaster-struck area (what are the needs of the victims?), idea source

・These are not enough in order to differentiate from other websites. Therefore, we will set up an idea page so that creators can communicate each other through their comments.

- Main contents　

…case study page, idea page, disaster-struck area information page

- User accouts

…

we will be using Facebook or Twitter accounts

・Facebook is an ideal tool since it recommends users to show their real names; identifying users means eventually there will be restriction in users' actions

・Users do not need to sign up for a new account; that allow users to participate easily

3. Structure of our case study page
Our case study page aim to easily transmit design from oversea for japanese designers. Therefore, we will translate English case studies into Japanese, and will design a four-frame comic strip to illustrate summaries of each case studies. Case studies are categorized according to the categorizes written above, and information (cost, time period, numbers of people, location, etc.), a four-frame comic strip of each case study, related case studies, are displayed all in one. For those who want to know more detailed information, like credit, etc., we allow them to scroll down. We will make numbers of clicking as small as possible.

4. Structure of our idea page
Our idea page aim creators to easily find what they want and communicate. In this page, companies can look for new ideas and designers can ask for funds or new staff that are in short. We will divide our users into four: NPO, local municipal, companies, and designers, and make two pages:

- "How about this?" Page (for NPO, local municipal, companies)　

…show ideas that designers came up with. Users can comment which enable them to blush-up the ideas and exchange their opinions. This page allow NPO, local municipal and companies to find ideas when they want to organize a project.

- "Wanted!" Page (for designers)

…This page allow designers to know what NPO, local municipal and companies want to do in a specific situation, so designers can post their projects according to that information.

These two factors are categorized using same tags and icons. We ask for users to sign in using their existing Twitter or Facebook account. Then, we will ask for summary of the idea and description of the user. We will also ask for detailed information such as pictures, tags, location and cost, if there are any.

※Designers might personally contact the company only looking at information it provides. In order to prevent cases like these, we have to design a system that users will not ask too much for their profit.

5. "Information of victims" Page

We will participate in a project of a Japanese creators group called JAGDA (they are planning to create a book and a website about Japan earthquake, through July to March), and post information we gained in a blog form.

6. Structure of a top page

There will be news page, about page, contact page, sponsors page, link page (ex. INDEX) etc. on our top page.

Top page also is an entrance for contents 3-5 so we discussed how we can place them on top page in user-friendly way.

- Links to case studies page

…we introduce three to five case studies in order to notify the users what they are like. Icons show what categories those case studies are in, and also there will be a title, thumbnail picture and a brief description.

- Links to ideas page

…according to two factors of ideas page ("How about this?" Page and "Wanted!" Page), we lists thumbnails of the ideas in newly arrivals. In "Wanted!" page, other than showing what is needed using icons, we will put logos of the companies, in order to tell information easily.

7. Homework

- Movie team

…improve the clip from last week. Focus on stronger statement and stories.

- Web A&B team

…according to the web structure we decided this time, come up with visuals of case studies page and top page.