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Tips from Urban Planning for Better .edu Design
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- Description:
- Universities are small towns, but most people have tried to apply corporate design and technical approaches to solve problems in that environment. This presentation will show how urban planning techniques can be applied to address the unique issues that universities and other horizontal organizations like library systems face. It will also talk about an open source system that was created to support this solution. This approach was devised when designing the web landscape for the entire Collage of Arts & Sciences at Duke University. This case study will demonstrate a respectful approach to designing for an organization that does not have a top-down power structure.
- Questions
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- Why is the .edu world different than the .com?
- How can you use design to respect the goals/mission of individual departments or entities inside a large organization?
- Shouldn't there be a strict brand guideline for all organizations?
- Won't you end up creating choas if you allow for individual design solutions?
- What is the balance between design control and freedom in a horizontal organization?
- Do you have to redesign and rebuild all of your websites at once (if you have more than one)?
- What are basic urban design principles?
- Should universities be using open source or enterprise solutions?
- How does an open source solution advance the mission of my higher education instituation?
- Why is respect so important in the design process?
- Level:
- Intermediate
- Category:
- Content Management, Design Thinking, Education, Information Architecture, Open Source
- Type:
- Solo
- Event:
- Interactive 2010
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