1. The Data Library Crew and many more
New Design for the IRI Map Rooms
The Data Library Crew and many more

2. 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

3. 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

4. Sample previous design page

6. Sample new design page

7. New Map Room http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/maproom/ IFRC
Precipitation Anomaly
Select-a-point Climatology
MEWS
Embedded in Forecast Pages
GCM
SST Forecast

8. New Map Room
Flexible Forecast
Drought Tools

9. 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)