>
>1. Does it work with your browser/OS combo?
Looks fine on Win98
>2. Is it speedy?
Yes, quite fast at 28.8
>final calls weren't mine. The look is "light" by intention--this stage
>is the formal stuff (the the management liaisons were tossing around the
>term "Bauhaus" a lot)
Doesn't look the slightest bit "Bauhaus" to me. Not at all. I wonder where
those management liaisons studied design?
>it's at http://www.unfoundation.org/unwire. Registration is required
>only because we're trying to get realistic stats to justify the costs of
>producing it, and as a step toward the site personalization options in
>future stages. Email address and password only.
I happened to got to the UNWire page before reading this. And I went no
further, as I don't normally bother with registration unless I have some
compelling need to access a site. I don't like to give out info about myself
unless there is some compelling reason.
>
>And finally, I'm also interested in feedback on the content. I tried to
>make every part of this site tell a story about the UN.
The layout to be monotonous and not conducive to further reading. With every
page looking just alike, I can't remember which pages I've read.
I don't find the design or content at all engaging. Written in stiff
bureaucratese, it comes across with about as much emotional impact as a bank
annual report. The visuals don't do much either. The children's health
pages, for instance--I've seen dozens of photos of children in 3rd world
countries so heart-breaking that they make me want to pull out the
checkbook. However, the photo that you use, combined with long, rather dry,
academic text, don't pull at my heartstrings. Nor does a statement like,
"Please help the UNF in its efforts to improve the health of children around
the world."
You need to tell me why you want my money, how much money you need, how
exactly it will be used, who will benefit, etc. If you tell me that
$20/month will feed a starving child in the Sudan, I am much more likely to
respond than I would be to a vague, "please help." Tell me where funds are
lacking, who is suffering as a result, how much money is needed, etc.
Statements written in corporate bureaucratese such as "implementation of the
action plans developed from the World Summit for Children" tell me nothing,
nada, zip. But tell me that $50 will buy polio vaccine for 100 kids, and
that you currently need polio vaccine for an additional 3 million children
each year, and my checkbook may come out.
You probably need to approach individual readers much differently from major
funds. If I see that the World Health Organization has donated millions,
then I might think you don't need my twenty bucks, or that my $20 is just an
unimportant drop in the bucket. If you want small individual donors, you
need to convince each that his or her $20 is really needed and will be used
wisely, not just folded into administrative overhead.
I would prefer to be able to earmark my donation for a specific use: to buy
vaccines, to feed a child, etc. than just to have it go into some mammoth
entity that seems to have plenty of money without any help from me.
Also, if you want my money to help children, give me a link directly from
the children's health section--don't make me hunt for it in a link buried
under "get involved."
You are probably aware that http://204.243.96.158/teststore/vieworder2.cfm
needs work. "If you'd like to remove a gift item from your order..." etc. I
would remove any reference to shopping unless you plan to give something in
return, such as a t-shirt or videotape for every $100 donation. Otherwise,
references to shopping are just confusing.
Suz
Suzanne Stephens; partner, Dave Stephens Design
Ashland, Oregon http://www.kickassdesign.com
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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