final stretch

I added some new material on the site, after Ramona reviewed what we've done to date. Here's another page I am particularly proud of:

Old:





















New:

Thinking about the project as a whole, the main goals of my redesign are:

• user-centeredness: "Free Mammograms" not "Education and Outreach"
• decrease duplication /complexity of the site -- especially without breadcrumbs
  
• connect money in (race) = money out (grants) --I'm not sure how effectively this is done at this point
• provide a structure for new, interactive features to be added later

And on a more prosaic level:

• Cut what Krug calls "happy text"--there is a LOT of it
• Add images, colors -- I added a simple pie chart on the "What we Fund" page to illustrate the 25% Research/75% Education, Screening and Treatment and while I doubt it adds any significant informational value, it certainly LOOKS better

It looks like we'll need to finish hammering all this out this weekend, myself and Jess--at this point I think it won't be live til the end of the year. Nonprofit decision-making structures: not terribly efficient. Everybody has a stake in this, I guess. We will be presenting it to the board in December, and I suspect further changes will be requested on that front as well. But that's OK, I am looking forward to having the time to get some good tools implemented. I very much want to put the site on my to-be-created Web-based resume, and some bells and whistles won't hurt.

Cool doodads for later:

• Grantee bios/photos-- to personalize "What We Fund"
  
• Sortable list of mammogram providers
• Interactive Mapquest map of all mammo providers, as soon as I figure out how to do it
  
• Provider portal
• Highlight support groups/medical providers that are grantees
• Search function
• Tabs?

Usability results forthcoming, when I decipher my handwriting...