Slideshow from a Keuka College IA workshop. Handouts and information is available at geekdownthehall.wordpress.com

1. Student Life Redesign
Brainstorming Session

2. Agenda: Welcome to the Next Hour of Your Life
1. Why Campus Life?
2. Our Goals & Ideas
3. Concept Mapping
4. Bullseye Diagram

3. Campus Life?
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Student Life Redesign
Brainstorming Session

4. Our Campus: Not Just Students
Students Personnel
undergraduate contract employees
graduate faculty & staff
ARC trustees
Guests
conference services
community
prospects

5. Introducing: Our Goals & Ideas

6. “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but
not simpler.” — Albert Einstein
encourage put stuff on only 411 people
interaction ‘display’ want to know
collaborative easy to find keep things
authoring stuff fresh
trust the students don’t assume
who cares about easy-to-use
other schools? experience
use multimedia
represent all depts.

7. Getting There: Way more than 1/2 the battle
information architecture
the science of expressing a model for information
1. Decide what information we want to share...
...and what our community wants
2. Come up with a categories
3. Define a visual blueprint
research
figuring out if we were actually right
1. Web-based Surveys
that’s why we need goals
2. Card Sorting
and ideas — what are 3. One-on-One Interviews
we trying to do?
production
making it work
1. Content Creation
2. Design
3. Programming
4. Revisions

8. Diagrams: Could It Be ... Experiential Learning?
Concept Map Bullseye Diagram

9. Diagrams: Could It Be ... Experiential Learning?
nouns nothing is irrelevant
and verbs or “dumb.”
Concept Map Bullseye Diagram
loose guide for
CmapTools
content
will help us cluster &
categorize information

10. Diagrams: Could It Be ... Experiential Learning?
nouns nothing is irrelevant determines level
and verbs or “dumb.” of importance
Concept Map Bullseye Diagram
loose guide for defines the
CmapTools
content “project scope”
will help us cluster &
categorize information