This wiki is the place where the Marketing Comittee of OSGeo is planning the redesigning of the OSGeo Web site following a user-centered design process (UCD). The main goals of the redesign are to provide:

   * increased usability of the OSGeo Web site, and
   * increased use of the resources on the OSGeo Web site due to better usability.
   * aligning site branding with an official print design

Members

Tyler
Daniele
Jeroen

Tasks

1) Analysis of the Current website

OSGeo Homepage in Jan 2009

Content Design
Layout Design
Navigation Design
Visual Design

2) Define areas that need improvement

Content Design:
- Some of the written content could be summarized
- The site is very static and rigid. The community lives somewhere else. Do we want a more active site?
Layout Design:
Navigation Design:
- The Login section is not easy to find on the homepage
- We have a very long menu. It should be shortened.
Visual Design:
- More images may make the website a bit more friendly
- The site could use more color.

Projects

Ideas

User centered Design
User testing
Usability
Tied to branding of print material
We should implement a search. Probably google site search.
Language selection could be made better
- The navigation menu is not the correct place to put language selection in.
- A alternative way could be to have a "change language" link in the top banner somewhere, which would take the user to a page like this.

Links

Previous discussion

Several emails following from this marketing thread and this board thread
Target audiences and messaging are discussed in the Marketing Communication Strategy 2008 (section 6 in particular)
WebCom OSGeo Site Focus presents various target audiences as well under Marketing Targets

Web site design

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