Remember, for Sydney members, Peter will be doing a detailed presentation at our next meeting and notes will be available afterwards for all members: http://webstandardsgroup.org/go/event10.cfm
It might be a bit too long to wait for some more immediate answers :) Russ > Hey there Peter, > > everyone here at my office has had the day in their calendar to check out the > redesign. Now that the redesign has shipped and you can now get your life > back... I'd love to hear (if you have time) about the process involved in the > redesign. > > There was a report from Forrester last year that a large percentage of > redesigns make things worse and they cited Macromedia's first iteration as an > example. They then went on to praise the second redesign - > http://www.macromedia.com/homepage/forrester.pdf > > From a process point of view, I'd love to know how you approached such a huge > project. > > ~ How you identified a redesign was necessary > ~ How you got buy-in from the key stakeholders that a redesign was necessary > ~ What were the traget areas you wanted to improve and update > ~ What kind of useability // surveys // focus groups // lab // eye tracking > testing you did > ~ How you migrated the templates (you guys use Fatwire as the backend yeah?) > ~ How you went about browser testing and what browsers you promised the > stakeholders you would test for > ~ How rigourous was your test plan > ~ How many releases and iterations you did do before final release > ~ What have been the anectdotal responses from users > ~ What are the measureable benefits from the redesign > > mmm - so many questions - so little time. I'm sure you're going to have a busy > couple of weeks so I will understand if you ignore such a long list of > sticky-beak questions... > > I would. > > Personally - I love the redesign. > > A bienetot, > Benvolio > ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
