bodleian / oxford-explorer

The culmination of our previous R&D into the Oxford work. Now we have a Thing.
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Design/build better entry point for visualisation #37

Closed george08 closed 7 years ago

george08 commented 7 years ago

The feedback from Catriona has been to try to do a better job of "bringing people in" to the visualisation and what we're trying to communicate. We have an idea, something along the lines of a storyboard or animation that sounds something like...

Hello. Welcome to our Collections @ Oxford prototype.

We've made a map of our collections for you.

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( circle )

This is a collection.

Sometimes we know how big it is. 

(( circle ))
((( circle )))
(( circle ))
( circle )
(( circle ))

Sometimes we're not sure.

[ square ]

But we normally know something.

( circle )

+
\ pie /

Sometimes there are digital catalogue records.

+
_ arc _

Sometimes you can even see a digital version of the thing.
That's the best.

We think it'll take about 75 years to fill the gaps.

Ready?
- Yes, please.
george08 commented 7 years ago
george08 commented 7 years ago

Will look to do paper/sketching of other design ideas to incorporate more data into the upfront visualisation.