BTW I just discovered the California Schools Guide on the new LA Times site in the Local section. This may have been on the previous site; does anyone know who produced it?
http://projects.latimes.com/schools/ http://projects.latimes.com/schools/school/foothill-ranch/foothill-ranch-elementary/ Elegant data presentation, especially once you drill down to schools and districts and expand the sections to look at test scores, immunizations, etc. I'm impressed with how many people are entering comments (Kris about Pacific Palisades, 1 hour, 59 minutes ago), both in the schools section and over in the LA neighborhoods section, which is populated by census data but presented in coherent, narrative style. And smart about the intersecting regions of counties, neighborhoods, school districts, etc. http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/neighborhoods/ http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/neighborhoods/neighborhood/granada-hills/ (I am a bit worried about all the Waldorf schools giving waivers on immunizations for half their kindergarten classes. It's a good sign when a data visualization makes you want to interact with it, right?) Diana On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Steven Johnson<[email protected]> wrote: > The new L.A. Times web redesign launched last night. > > IA-wise, it's basically the same site, but the look-and-feel more > strongly embraces the print idiom (e.g., Georgia font). > > I feel like the big news is that they've dropped link colors from > headlines, nav, etc. > > Latimes.com is my alma mater (1999-2006), and I now also teach web > publishing at Annenberg School of Journalism at USC. > > I'd really like to get some feedback on the redesign from the > IxD/UED community to bring back to the J-school and print publishing > worlds. > > Please have a look: http://www.latimes.com/ > > Thanks. > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
