a few more steps together :-)

[Bill Crosbie]

At 01:56 PM 6/5/96 -0700, Vivienne Cuff wrote:
>
>
>> To pick up on remarks of Nick Arnett and Gail Wanner, I think the goal is
>> for librarians and techies to work together to make information products
>> easy to use, with the details transparent to the user. 
>
>My 2c worth - I think we should include in any design team graphic, 
>information and user interface designers. These people also have a 
>long history of dealing with information to make it easy to use 
>etc.
>

I heartily agree with this statement.  The Information Media Design Group at
Rutgers was founded on that very premise.  Our most successful WWW projects
have always included a core trio from different disciplines -
Digital/Graphic Artist, Library/Information Specialist, and Computer
Programmer/System Analyst.  What is great  is that I can focus on what I do
best - programming, scripting and creating schema to allow for automated
maintenance of the site.  The librarian organizes the information in a
logical structure for 'human consumption', defining the pathways through the
information space, and the graphic designer gives the sight both visual
appeal _and_ intuitive navigation.  When you add this to a content provider
(faculty member), interesting things start to happen!

It is very important to remember that graphic artists are trained to
communicate information in a visual medium - and that their skills are
necessary (though not sufficient, as many ad agencies turned WWW designers
would have you believe) in the design of a WWW site.
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