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says Steve, the New Zealand designer, looking at the Australian homepage:
“They surely can’t be using Times New Roman in the logo?”
I’m liking how the CodeBlacks are working. There’s still that air of quiet efficiency. Zef is sitting with the clients, working through the information architecture, explaining the team’s thinking. Steve has mocked up a homepage design, waiting to show the clients. There’s been some discussion on the use of the Grampian’s logo, but it’s clear that the logo needs to stay. So the team is thinking of pushing a new logo for the site that would sit alongside the Grampian’s logo.
Jeffrey has already marked-up a template page. It’ll change as things progress, but it’s got the essentials there. He’s pleased how easy it is to validate at this stage! Peter and Thomas are huddled together by a flipchart, talking over content, discussing what the tone of the site needs to be.
There’s a long way to go, but this looks to be a good basis.
Mike
- Date:
- August 17th, 2007
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Had a brief chat with Alison Green over the sumptuous desert buffet….mmm. Whilst working out whether or not to have normal cheesecake or cheesecake enhanced with Green jelly, we discussed the upcoming Grampians Disability Advocacy website. Alison seemed quite calm and was anticipating her teams task of making the site as accessible as possible for many different people. The need for quite a high level of accessibility and the challenge of making it all happen in 24 hours could prove interesting to watch. The client apparently was here this morning briefing the NZ team and had just popped out for lunch. The Grampians Disability Advocacy content was easy to divide up - usability for everyone - being the key to making the site work well.
Amira
- Date:
- August 17th, 2007
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The NZ team have asked if they can do something outside of the established guidelines. It’s a rather reasonable request involving the engagement of ‘outsiders’ to do some user testing on their beta site. It’s a great suggestion, especially since they are designing for users with a disability. After some deliberation from the organisers, the suggestion was taken to the Australian team for discussion. A decision was made to allow each team a 2 hour time frame to conduct user testing. They are under no circumstances allowed to use this time as an opportunity to test other things like whether their code is validating or not. No cheating here folks!
Renae.
- Date:
- August 17th, 2007
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- New Zealand, News, accessibility, usability
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We’ve just returned from a yummo buffet lunch and the teams are straight back into business. Rumours that were buzzing around before lunch are now confirmed true. In a startling turn of events the NZ team are indeed guilty of kicking the camera/paparazzi crew out of their room! Sorry kids, but we’re just doing our jobs. Why are we soooo unpopular? That was a rhetorical question of course. In all seriousness, the team had a need for a private discussion and didn’t want their top-secret plans revealed on YouTube just yet. Fair enough.
Speaking of fair play, I must report that Jeff from the NZ team was witnessed propositioning one of our female judges. The conversation wasn’t recorded but off the record, it went a little like this:
Jeff: So, what do you do?
Gian: I’m a judge
Jeff: Oh…you are so pretty.
What else can I say but, ahah! Busted!
Jeff, looking so innocent.
Cheers for now,
Renae (playing favourites for a while)
- Date:
- August 17th, 2007
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First impressions last. Or so they say. Judging by the ‘code blacks’ attire I’d say they are all in for psychological intimidation, a visually united front. Good for them yunno.
Renae (is not scared, oh no)
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- August 17th, 2007
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Check it out if you don’t believe me. The New Zealand team are the first to upload something to their site. At this stage it’s just an index holding page but still, this is only surface evidence and potentially misleading. Further investigations prove that the Aussies are working locally, on their own file server so it is hard to really judge just who is in front. Apprently the Aussies are ‘laughing loudly’ upon the discovery of the index.html file. They musn’t be too bothered then?
Renae.
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- August 17th, 2007
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Webstock are extremely pleased to announce the selection panel for the New Zealand FullCodePress team. It’ll be their job to shortlist three candidates for each position, one of whom will be chosen at random for the team.
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- Date:
- May 22nd, 2007
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