The Data Library Crew and many more New Design for the IRI Map Rooms The Data Library Crew and many more
Issues (starting point) Appearance of opening page Ease of searching the map rooms design elements lack of context for images and tools prevents discovery (by Google at least) Ease of use multilingual clean page on different screen sizes navigation rebellion
Issues (that developed over time) merging with partner websites enabling web designers to control appearance We also want to represent our general efforts by building a tool that is all about sharing information clean many-person workflow
Sample previous design page
Sample new design page
New Map Room http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/maproom/ IFRC Precipitation Anomaly Select-a-point Climatology MEWS Embedded in Forecast Pages GCM SST Forecast
New Map Room Flexible Forecast Drought Tools
Analytics reveal JPG downloads very popular, followed by GIF -- JPG is the worst image quality and has no link slow uptake on social networks so far but web creation is the next Big Thing (Yahoo/Tumblr)