Much rather use Photoshop over Word:

front page: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/170/400233137_420a69f7e4_o.jpg
MyTIG: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/400233138_2614292196_o.jpg

Just the first version, will run it through some peer reviews and hopefully come up with something better. The names aren't set in stone.

OK, time to go out for dinner!

Since Kate is now leaving us, I will now be in charge of this project. Please direct all inquiries to me (esum) or post your concerns to the blog. FYI, currently I am only avail 4-6 hours/week and I have committed to 13 weeks of this project (so that I can focus on school)!

Week 9 (Feb 12-16)
- prep meeting #3
- meeting #1.2 (with multilingual team)
- meeting #3

Week 10 (Feb 19-23)
- create wireframes (with Sush)
- redesign welcome/join, member nests
- design MyTIG

Week 11-12 (Feb 26 - Mar 9)
- line up peer critiques (Yaz/Paul)

Week 13 (Mar 12-17)
- meeting with Mike, Jenn, Kate
- stats from Mike

Week 14-15 (Mar 19 - Apr 6)
- improve current mockup

Week 16 - ??
- peer critiques
- usability testing

Please post your suggestions for alternative names here:

- TOOLS tab
- MEDIA tab

- open forums
- voice
- panorama

A major thank you for all those who attending the meeting today. We reached a consensus regarding the nav.

- ajax "see all" will keep old nav categories (e.g. make connections) and demoted to the header
- nav will change from drop down menus to the following tabs:

1) TIG (default logout)
spotlights
member stories
member search
explore your world

2) "TOOLS" (name still under discussion)
groups
discussion baords
e-cards
open forums
projects

3) RESOURCES
professional/financial opportunities
events
voice
organization
toolkits & publications
issues

4) "MEDIA"
global gallery
panorama
TIGmagazine
podcasts
TIGblogs

5) ABOUT
newsletters
promote TIG

6) MyTIG (not discussed yet)
my countries
my languages
my feeds
my content

7) TIGed

Kate and I met up with the multilingual team today to discuss the redesign of the front page with a focus on language. The following is a summary of features under consideration:

direct:
- scaling down front page content so that the bottom nav with all languages will be immediately visible
- using multiple languages in the spotlight; using a rotating spotlight to directly highlight languages. (remember, we are considering more than one spotlight)
- initial language splash page (like wikipedia.org)
- making it harder to log out (security issues?)
- MyTIG language tab

indirect:
- member nests in multiple languages
- tag cloud in multiple languages

for more background on changes in frontpage content, please see the post for meeting #1: http://www.tigblog.org/group/frontpage/post/123497

Feb 16, Friday 2:00pm

We will be discussing design solutions. Apologies if the date/time is inconvenient. Summary will be posted for those who cannot make it.

an email from jen to the office list that relates to the front page:

As I was trying to sleep last night - a strong thought came to mind (not
a new idea - it's actually what was discussed during the last
revamp)...we really need to bring interesting member content to our home
page in a simple way - partially as a way to promote what the site has
to offer and partially as a way to keep people coming back with
interesting content.

I was thinking that it would be ideal to have something different each
day (and the other language sites could put forward interesting content
ideally on a weekly basis). Perhaps we need to have another volunteer
editorial position that involves having someone search for content on
the site - perhaps it relates to the theme, or a current issue, or is
simply really inspiring. It could possibly rotate - for example, on
mondays it's a blog, Tuesday a gallery image, Wednesday a panorama
article, Thursday a discussion board post, Friday a project.... It
could be something that was either recently posted, or really popular
and timely - but the point is that it is something we choose and is not
randomly selected. Ideally, the volunteer or madelaine would also post
a comment on the submission as well - to encourage others to do the
same.

I've been getting emails about some great sites we could use for examples, so I thought it might be a good idea to centralize them in a post. Please feel free to post more suggestions!

- http://apple.com/ (navigation solution - subtabs) Note: amazon.com has this subtab function as well
- http://flickr.com
- http://facebook.com
- http://www.igloo.org/ (another online community)
- shelfari invitation email

The results from Kate's user groups have engendered the need to revise our timeline. Note that meeting #3 has been moved to a later date:

Week Seven (Jan 29-Feb 2)
- Kate returns to TORONTO with results of usability tests #1
- reconfigure timeline
- 2007 knowledge management meeting w/Ellen

Week Eight (Feb 5-9)
- usability tests #2
- formal summary of identified problems

Week Nine (Feb 12-16)
- creation of possible design solutions
- meeting #3 (presentation of usability problems/solutions & discussion)
- line up peers

Week Ten (Feb 19-23)
- first set of wireframes

Week Eleven (Feb 26- Mar 2)
- wireframe peer critique
- usability tests #3 (peer and user)

Week Twelve (Mar 5-9)
- FINAL MEETING (wireframe presentation)
- design tweaking

Week Thirteen (Mar 12-14)
- design tweaking
- if time, create plans to implement design