1. Web Design Considerations A brown bag talk and demo by Mateo Yanes. Web Design Considerations – A Brown Bag Talk - December 9, 2014

2. Introduction Mateo Yanes, Senior GIS Programmer Developer with the CNRA/DWR Enterprise GIS Services Unit What’s This All About? Developers sometime get so caught up in creating a tool (web map) that they forget about other things. Branding Functionality Usability Content

3. Web Design Considerations – A Brown Bag Talk - December 9, 2014 See Wyatt Pearsall’s Talk https://dwrgis.water.ca.gov/brown-bag-sessions/- /blogs/web-application-development-wyatt-pearsall Great overview of the entire process: Software Development Lifecycle Requirements Design Construction Testing Maintenance This Talk Is About Design But It Overlaps Some Other Areas

4. Web Design Considerations – A Brown Bag Talk - December 9, 2014 Web Map Design Analysis Sheet A guide for things to consider. Some items affect other items. Items are not weighted for importance so even a high score doesn’t mean the web map is great. Scoring is dependent on the person doing the analysis and their experience. It does give developers a sort of checklist to remind them of things to consider. Credit: Robert Scott Rubinoff on Web Design Analytics. Modified for GIS Web Maps by Bryan Richter and Mateo Yanes.

5. Web Design Considerations – A Brown Bag Talk - December 9, 2014 Demo Time Nevada DWR: Water Rights Mapping Application HTML 5 USGS: National Water Information System: Mapper

6. Web Design Considerations – A Brown Bag Talk - December 9, 2014 Usability Accessibility – An entire topic for a brown bag. State Standards and Priority Level 1 & 2 and AA Contrast Tool: http://snook.ca/technical/colour_contrast/colour.ht ml

7. Web Design Considerations – A Brown Bag Talk - December 9, 2014 Thank you to Jane Schafer- Kramer for setting this up and helping throughout this brown bag talk.