Ali
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- http://www.alifelski.com/
- Location:
- Falls Church, VA
- Skills:
- front end design, html/css
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FCC's Reboot
A couple of months ago, as part of our Redesigning the Government series, we took a stab at redesigning and rethinking the FCC website, which resulted in some good discussion between our organizations. Yesterday the FCC released their long awaited Reboot site, which by their definition is an attempt to be “your portal to take part in improving citizen interactions with the Federal Communications Commission”. The questions we've been asking ourselves while evaluating their new site are: what exactly does the above statement mean, what have they done well, and what are the things we think they still need to consider while moving forward.
Imagining /open
Last month President Obama unveiled his Open Government Directive to create further openness within the executive branch. This directive requires federal agencies to show how they are working toward transparency, public participation, and collaboration by requiring the addition of new web pages – "/open" pages – onto their existing sites. With the first deadline in the directive quickly approaching, we've put together our thoughts on what these pages should look like.
Reinventing the Wheel
A couple of days ago I was pointed to a slideshare presentation that was done as a Webmanager University New Media Talk on user centered design. Yes, there is actually a University for the people who manage federal, state and local government websites. While making my way through the slides I discovered that the Government has two separate resources dedicated to how their employees should implement user centered websites; usability.gov and usa.gov/webcontent. These sites are filled with content written by knowledgeable phd's, which is great, but when government websites seem to be falling further behind in web design and usability, it begs the question of why they're creating their own resources and not just using the myriad ones that exist in the private sector.
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- Current state of my old apt... Stuff everywhere still. I spent all day here, guess I should have spent all weekend http://yfrog.com/0q9ztrj
- Getting some painting done this morning http://yfrog.com/783hxj
- Having a hard time enjoying the beautiful weather today, feeling stressed thinking about the next couple of weeks. Oh well, off to frisbee
- @cjoh hope you and roz had a great run! :)
- Some great things in this book I can't get over, like: http://twitpic.com/19js8e. Thanks @greatgreckler for bringing in New Vintage Type!