Information Architecture and Design Project for the
Austin History Center Association
The School of Information at University of Texas at Austin Fall 2004
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Information Architecture and Design Project for the The School of Information at University of Texas at Austin Fall 2004 |
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Meeting with AHCA, 27 September 2004 Questions Q1 : What distinction you wish to emphasize between the Austin History Center’s website and the Austin History Center Association’s newly designed website? Through discussions with AHCA, there should be some retention of association with the Austin History Center i.e. the logo and links. However, the Association would like a distinct identity for their Web site and have indicated they are open to suggestion from the Project Team. The Association has also indicated that the tagline "Supporting Our Community's Collective Memory" will need to be changed, and will supply this tagline to the Project Team. Q2 : What do you expect the user to accomplish through use of AHCA’s website?(Seeking resources?News on events, notices, calendar, current information?Potential sponsors/supporters of the AHCA? The AHCA Web site is expected to provide useful information to users on the organization's activities; opportunities and methods of sponsorship, support and membership; access to photo images for viewing, and purchase of publications of Waterloo Press. Q3 : What are your priorities for your audience when they visit your website? What do you want to emphasize? Tentative emphasis on the home page of the Web site will be on: 1-basic information on the AHCA 2-publicity for current events and news 3-Waterloo Press - to encourage purchase of publications 4-how to become a supporter/sponsor/volunteer for the Association, and 5-the Association's link to the Austin History Center. Q4 : Clarification regarding book purchasing AHCA is interested to implement an online shopping function for the Waterloo Press. The Project Team has mentioned that while this may not be possible at this time, the Team will try to pave as much of the way as they can in order to facilitate the inclusion of this feature (i.e. e-commerce using electronic shopping carts) in the future (whether done by the Team or someone else). One possibility is to set up a simple purchasing system, for example, the phone/fax numbers and a simple form to be faxed or e-mailed to the Association by the potential buyer.Q5: How many levels do you want the website to work at? E.g. As a link to refer users to the AHC website? Or as a resource on its own, and the AHC just as a link? Probably two or three levels but not too many. Each level has no more than three levels for the most part. Q6: Clarification regarding the users of the site i.e. their current users of both website and AHCA and other potential users. Are they also aiming for the addition of other types of audiences who may not currently be users of the site? The re-design of the site seeks to facilitate navigation by current users in order to accomplish the tasks they set out to do. Also, the Association hopes that this will help recruit potential users either as members or supporters of the AHCA.
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