• US$560

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• 9 designers

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Web Design Brief

Goal:

-Create photoshop or HTML+CSS mockup of homepage for the Program for Information Science .

- Also create a child page which would be used to frame more detailed information - e.g. a list of publications, blog page, project activities, staff page.

Details:

The homepage is intended to convey:
- The mission of the program
- Link to overviews of research projects, preferably with brief teaser descriptions
- Display information on upcoming events, publications and tweets
- Show a connection to MIT and the MIT libraries
- Encourage viewers to follow/share content via social media

Target audience:
- Research funders interested in an overview of the program, its major research areas, and research outputs (such as program publications and software, awards)
- MIT community (faculty, library staff, and students) interested in current information (blogs/tweets), events, and possible collaboration opportunities

Hosting:
- The site will eventually be hosted on informatics.mit.edu using a CMS (Drupal)
- There will be opportunity for further website implementation work if desired

Existing material:
- A text overview of the research program is included in the appendix attached to this document
- Much of the information on research projects is currently described here: http://drmaltman.wordpress.com/dr-altmans-current-projects-and-research-aka-what-is-micah-doing/ This content will be moved to the program site when completed.

Themes:
- MIT color scheme is here, it is not required, but could be used for inspiration: http://web.mit.edu/graphicidentity/colors/index.html
- MIT libraries home page is here: http://libraries.mit.edu/.
- The program page should borrow some design element from the library page if possible, and include the library and MIT logos somewhere on the page - but not as the most prominent branding element.
- Overall look and feel should be professional and serious, but modern

Comparison sites:

For comparison here are several pages for similar sites that are done fairly well:

http://www.pewresearch.org/
http://www.media.mit.edu/
http://www.iq.harvard.edu/

- The pew and media sites have the cleanest design.
- Both pew and iq are successful in conveying information about upcoming evevnts, publication and tweets
- Media lab shows the right connection to larger organization
- Pew site communicates better the mission of the organization

Target Market(s)

- Research funders interested in an overview of the program, its major research areas, and research outputs (such as program publications and software

Industry/Entity Type

Library

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Look and feel

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Requirements

Nice to have

• hemes:
  - MIT color scheme is here, it is not required, but could be used for inspiration: http://web.mit.edu/graphicidentity/colors/index.html
  - MIT libraries home page is here: http://libraries.mit.edu/.
  - The program page should borrow some design element from the library page if possible, and include the library and MIT logos somewhere on the page - but not as the most prominent branding element.
  - Overall look and feel should be professional and serious, but modern
  
  Comparison sites:
  
  For comparison here are several pages for similar sites that are done fairly well:
  
  http://www.pewresearch.org/
  http://www.media.mit.edu/
  http://www.iq.harvard.edu/
  
  - The pew and media sites have the cleanest design.
  - Both pew and iq are successful in conveying information about upcoming evevnts, publication and tweets
  - Media lab shows the right connection to larger organization
  - Pew site communicates better the mission of the organization

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