[ECODP-dev] Feedback on proposed designs

Bert Van Nuffelen bert.van.nuffelen at tenforce.com
Thu Aug 1 13:34:22 UTC 2013


Hi Norbert,

yesterday morning you mentioned you would have a look to these aspects
Darwin mentioned below I believe.
I searched my mail box to find some answers, but I did not find any. Maybe
I am overlooking something?

Can you give us some update on them?

best regards,

Bert



2013/7/23 HOHN Norbert (OP) <Norbert.HOHN at publications.europa.eu>

>  Thanks Darwin. We are looking into it and will answer asap.****
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> *From:* Darwin Peltan [mailto:darwin.peltan at okfn.org]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 23, 2013 3:12 PM
> *To:* Project list for EC ODP CKAN project; ZAJAC Agnieszka (OP); ISOARD
> Olivier (OP); HOHN Norbert (OP); John Martin
> *Subject:* Feedback on proposed designs****
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> Dear Norbert,****
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> Thank you for sending the revised designs last week. John (our user
> experience specialist) and I have been looking at this and have some
> suggestions for slight changes that we feel will make the designs clearer.
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> With this is mind please see some revised versions attached. ****
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> I have described the main changes below. ****
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> Dataset page****
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> * Separated the visualisations from the other resources. ****
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> * Removed format labels from visualisations  ****
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> * Added an explicit download or visit page button next to each resource as
> appropriate for the type of resource****
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> * Made the resource box the same width as the rest of the content****
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> Publisher page****
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> * Reintroduced the count of the number of datasets from this publisher****
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> * Moved the title to be above the search box so it's more obvious that you
> are searching this publisher****
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> Search results page****
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> * Reintroduced the number of search results****
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> * Included search term next to count of results****
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> Thanks also for the suggestions on the homepage. Unfortunately even with
> those suggestions we are still going to get quite big variations in the
> lengths of the columns meaning that things will not line up exactly as
> shown in the mockup. We have no control over the content in the
> introduction and the same content will obviously be different lengths when
> translated into different languages. The same issue applies to the dataset
> titles, some of which will wrap onto two lines etc. Whilst we could
> truncate these after one line I think this is bad as the dataset name is a
> key bit of information when you're scanning the page. ****
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> One approach would be to make the boxes a fixed minimum height to allow
> for some variation. However this would mean that there could be quite a lot
> of space between the last item and the border at the bottom. Having the
> borders around each box will emphasises this so our recommendation would be
> to remove the borders. ****
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> John and I Look forward to your feedback.****
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> Best,****
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