1. Information Architecture
Structure
Back End
Automated system
Distinguishes between general data (available to all organizations) and personal data
Client Portal
User: NGOs
Goal: Appload Data tables to the system in order to choose a visualisation
Front End
User: Visitors
Goal: Find information about the world situation and the organizations approach.
Kristin Graefe, Russ Maschmeyer
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
2. Information Architecture
Front End Content Strategy
Content (for the example UNICEF)
1. State of the world
2. What the organization is doing
3. What are the organizations resources
4. What the organization needs
Kristin Graefe, Russ Maschmeyer
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
3. Information Architecture
Front End Content Strategy
1. State of the world
2 or 3 Data Sets (chosen by UNICEF)
• Millennium Development Goals by Country User can compare these data
• Infant Mortality by Country sets or compare their lives to
• Under-Five Mortality Rate by Country the lives of those in other
countries
• Life Expectancy at Birth by Country
• Household Income by Country
• Literacy Rate by Country
Kristin Graefe, Russ Maschmeyer
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
4. Information Architecture
Front End Content Strategy
2. What the organization is doing
2 or 3 Data Sets (chosen by UNICEF)
• Local / International Personnel by Country User can explore the data sets
• Types of Work Performed by Country
• Patients Served by Country
• Voices from the Field by Country (video?
text? podcast?)
Kristin Graefe, Russ Maschmeyer
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
5. Information Architecture
Front End Content Strategy
3. What are the organizations resources
Financial Information
• Contributions & Donations (direct donations, indirect donations, gross)
• Field Spending/Organizational Spending
• NGO Ratings
Donors/Partnerships
• Amounts by Donor
• Partnerships by Country
Kristin Graefe, Russ Maschmeyer
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
6. Information Architecture
Front End Content Strategy
4. What the organization needs
• Time
• Money
• Talent
Kristin Graefe, Russ Maschmeyer
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
7. Information Architecture
Back End Content Strategy
Service User Flow
As part of the service, organisations upload their data to our system.
• Data may describe both the state of the world & the work of the organization
• Clients choose the data they wish to compare
• The system delivers them visualization options
• Client chooses the appropriate visualization
Kristin Graefe, Russ Maschmeyer
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
8. The Service User Flow
Kristin Graefe, Russ Maschmeyer
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
