of the key criteria for adult learning. (If you compare the General Scoping website to the DEIS website, you can see how Dr. Murphy and I have internalized the principle of self-selection—General Scoping gives the visitor a choice of two paths, but once he is on a path, there is no meandering allowed. It” in the second website “Find invites people to pop around wherever they wish.) In a bottom-up web design, the idea is to let people pick,” watch the trails “berry that form as they browse for the information they want, and design accordingly. In the DEIS timeframe, we cannot do this, but what we were able to do is to use the decision framework as the up” design. The was developed over a long “bottom period of time with the public, in interviews, public meetings, and online, with many iterations and with complete fidelity on the part of the Supervisor. Thus we hoped it would create visitors actually wanted (Figure 14). We succeeded. The other important potential in web design and transparency is the ability to juxtapose key information. It is important to emphasize: even paper provides good opportunity for such display of information: But the most rudimentary web approaches allow for much more than paper can provide. We offered numerous graphical comparisons of the alternatives, each massively hyperlinked so that people could dig deeper as they chose (Figure 15). We also provided head-to-head comparisons (Figure 16 ). If the comparisons piqued curiosity, hyperlinks would invite the visitor to hop to explanatory text about the alternatives, the ratings of the alternatives, or the rationale for the ratings. Figure 15. (note there are 42 hyperlinks in the table alone--note also how consistently well Alternative F does).
of the key criteria for adult learning. (If you compare the General Scoping website to the DEIS website, you can see how Dr. Murphy and I have internalized the principle of self-selection—General Scoping gives the visitor a choice of two paths, but once he is on a path, there is no meandering allowed. “Find It” in the second website invites people to pop around wherever they wish.) In a bottom-up web design, the idea is to let people “berry pick,” watch the trails that form as they browse for the information they want, and design accordingly. In the DEIS timeframe, we cannot do this, but what we were able to do is to use the decision framework as the “bottom up” design. The was developed over a long period of time with the public, in interviews, public meetings, and online, with many iterations and with complete fidelity on the part of the Supervisor. Thus we hoped it would create visitors actually wanted (Figure 14). We succeeded. The other important potential in web design and transparency is the ability to juxtapose key information. It is important to emphasize: even paper provides good opportunity for such display of information: But the most rudimentary web approaches allow for much more than paper can provide. We offered numerous graphical comparisons of the alternatives, each massively hyperlinked so that people could dig deeper as they chose (Figure 15). We also provided head-to-head comparisons (Figure 16 ). If the comparisons piqued curiosity, hyperlinks would invite the visitor to hop to explanatory text about the alternatives, the ratings of the alternatives, or the rationale for the ratings. Figure 15. (note there are 42 hyperlinks in the table alone--note also how consistently well Alternative F does).
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