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.It may not be necessary to articulate these pieces. Trevor seems comfortable operating in the environment as it stands.

We are going to start rolling without wireframes.

Post Wed, when the sky clears for you, Thiago, let's revisit the bigger picture.

A UX-approach to the occupation listing is highly desired at this point.

The listing need not be a table, it could be cards of some kind. Users will want to search listings.
Let's try and keep things simple for launch.

This listing for Occupy Wall Street is the most complete, and can be looked at as a baseline. There is a lot of information there. Wireframes on how to present the data would be great.

See the Occupation Directory Specification for some user stories that may be of use in this process.

Like it, but my understanding of the data is there are not a lot of images (yet). How does this stand up with an initial selection of default images?

True, I was thinking the 'map thumb' from the Canada one could be generated for those without images?
But what of non physical occs, with no image....

I also think the 'chips' are too tall.

Ideally there would be a 'fixed set' of 'contact points' that could be accessible just from rolling over the image.

This overlay idea is an extrapolation from that, but maybe overkill.

My candidates for these 'top level' links:
Primary Email (if present)
Primary Phone (if present)
Primary Twitter hash (if present)
Livestream (the idea not the brand if present... should we call it 'live video' or is this a 'hoover' scenario)
Youtube
Flickr
Facebook?

Getting pretty comprehensive... what are your thoughts on 'essentials'

i clicked on the wrong semaphore and ended up editing thiago's comment. sorry about that :P

threading...

Thiago de Mello Bueno wrote:

True, I was thinking the 'map thumb' from the Canada one could be generated for those without images? But what of non physical occs, with no image....

I also think the 'chips' are too tall.

i love the thumbnails just as they are. i am going to be honest, am not hot about the header :\

as to the thumbnails:

1. How many occupies do not have an image?
1a. If the list is less than 100, am happy to help in researching & producing the thumbnails.

2. If we're talking in the hundreds (or thousands) how about setting up default images based on country and/or region?

do you need setting up the page wireframe and/or the views? i can help with that.

Ideally there would be a 'fixed set' of 'contact points' that could be accessible just from rolling over the image.

This overlay idea is an extrapolation from that, but maybe overkill.

My candidates for these 'top level' links: Primary Email (if present) Primary Phone (if present) Primary Twitter hash (if present) Livestream (the idea not the brand if present... should we call it 'live video' or is this a 'hoover' scenario) Youtube Flickr Facebook?

that's a lot of info. i think EMAIL / TWITTER / LIVESTREAM are going to be the biggies in interest.

great work!
liza

Overall, I like the image tiles, and the static map idea is pretty solid visually. It would take some doing to pull this off programmatically.
What happens to the layout if the Occupation name is long, i.e. "Occupy RedwoodCity/SanMateo County"? Probably overlap the image?

Fly-out is a good idea, but we probably can't tie it to the bottom of the tile, or the bottom row will go off-page. Some kind of tooltip solution de mesure.

Let's take email and phone out of the top level links, and value social media instead.
Yes, add facebook.
Let's call livestream "video stream".
Does it make sense to use social media icons instead of text?

This card layout, as noted, is more 0.6 than 0.5, but there are some good visual cues here.

I like the header and footer treatment.

The footer call to action for Feeds could be something like "get this (public) data". The call could slide out or expand to reveal the formats we have. For 0.6 we'll probably want a "more info" kind of page that lays the groundwork for an occuAPI idea.

I'm still pro yes-button. Not sure what it would do in the context of this site (yet) so let's put it in the bike shed?

Otherwise, beautiful stuff.

Really looking forward to the Occupation Node view.

Update, the long thin gothicish font is Ostrich Sans, which is open source and available from the league of moveable type (they put their font sources on github)
http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/ostrich-sans

I webfontalized it through font-squirrel.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3536211/fga/resources/fonts/ostrich-sans-fontfacekit.zip
Kerning/hinting really breaks down at small sizes.

Simpler listing view, 'direct link icons' show on hover. Otherwise clicking leads to node view. We can worry about flyovers some other time.

"Occupy Redwood City/ San Mateo County" problem is resolved with 'inline-block' treatment to the headers (so they can take a little padding) and a background color.

Yes button bike-racked. Its silly but i like it.

Note on node view, search bar remains... one less step towards resuming a search (search instead of back button or directory click + search)

Do any of you see need / use case for breadcrumbs of any sort in this scenario? I don't but my nerves are raw these days.

Map landing page

Is awesome. I've pointed Ticket #176 there.

re: the node view

02.01.2012_occnode.png

The commenting feature is to be our running tally of corrections. This'll be hidden from non-logged in users, as will all other tabs.
Need a more discrete call to action for submitting corrections.
Also a call to action to add your occupation (more of a site-wide concern)
Regrouping of fields may be required post evaluation of OWS listing.

Really like how the location is near the map.
GA label inline with text = great.

Good thinking overall. Looking forward to next pass.

Finishing my first pass at this, will be done in approx 1-2 hrs, so 5-6pm PST.

Oh also not sure who's purview it is, but please please please only list countries in which there are added occupations on the search pulldown please!
Signal vs. Noise!

Thiago de Mello Bueno wrote:

Oh also not sure who's purview it is, but please please please only list countries in which there are added occupations on the search pulldown please!

See Ticket #258