December 5th, 2005
The Media Matters Redesign Is Live
After a ton of hard work by many people, the redesigned Media Matters for America site has launched.
OLD:
NEW:
Behavior Design knocked out the visual design, we shared the information design, I handled the tagging schema/information architecture and we all tag-teamed with the Media Matters crew.
Now that the site is live, I’ve a bunch of tagging and findability methods I’d like to discuss here, but not tonight. Tonight I digest my sushi dinner with friends in San Fran.
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Congrats on the launch! Always nice to see your baby go up huh? And it looks great, a big improvement over the old.
thanks hen. they have a really interesting domain; very rich, structured tagging opportunities for their video and written content. and it’s important stuff.
onto the next gig! ;)
i love the relational aspects of your design. the site’s structure and content now align with the editorial vision. by simply navigating the site one can see the filtering and in some instances the glaring injustice. nice work.
thanks, dave. but you know how it is… there’s a bunch of stuff not yet implemented. the interface and information architecture could be much stronger. give it time sean, give it time. ;-)
I represent the firm called The Growth Cycle that did all the java script and html code for the site, it was indeed a marvel to take a complete redesign and complete the code base in 3 weeks for the aggressive 12/2005 launch. It was a worthwhile challenge and fun.
The reward is seeing a large volume of people getting real facts from the media.
Sean, lets chat someday…
yeah, we didn’t leave you with much time to execute, but it was the same on our end as well — not enough time to research, design, present, sell, iterate and document.
you guys did a great job in three weeks.
sounds good, i’ll ping you…
It was the type of project that required all in effort, we were well aware that we were not the only ones burning the midnight oil.
Steven