Frontpage: Countries not clickable

[RubenBloemgarten]

Only incidents are clickable so far. Countries should click to the corresponding country page.

[codehead]

I don't think we should make entire areas clickable by default -- links should be attached to an explicit anchor. Areas might break navigation as well, cause nowadays double-click in the map is the standard zoom gesture.
James, what would be a good UI solution for this? Perhaps displaying country anchors beyond a certain zoom level?

[RubenBloemgarten]

I suppose that depends on what we want the frontpage to do. The way I see it, it should provoke interest and incite action. Have lots of dynamics (Glowing areas, ripple effects and such) The most obvious action I imagine is ¨What about my country ?¨. Which would mean making the country a link. As we are relating processed data to legal entities (i.e. countries) it seems obvious to me to do so. I´m not sure whether disregarding the ¨standard¨ zoom gesture would be objectionable.

[codehead]

In that respect, I think we should add a call to action in the homepage
in the line of "What's the state of the Internet in ". That should be easy enough to implement, and it makes
the point of how much information we disclose unintentionally while
browsing the web, so it might become a good marketing hook for the
workshop ;-)
Best,
-Javier

On 11/22/2011 02:11 PM, RubenBloemgarten wrote:

I suppose that depends on what we want the frontpage to do. The way I see it, it should provoke interest and incite action. Have lots of dynamics (Glowing areas, ripple effects and such) The most obvious action I imagine is ¨What about my country ?¨. Which would mean making the country a link. As we are relating processed data to legal entities (i.e. countries) it seems obvious to me to do so. I´m not sure whether disregarding the ¨standard¨ zoom gesture would be objectionable.

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[RubenBloemgarten]

I´m not sure I understand what you mean with ¨Call to action¨ in this
regard. Could you expand on that a little ?

Thanks,

Ruben

On 11/22/2011 02:39 PM, codehead wrote:

In that respect, I think we should add a call to action in the homepage
in the line of "What's the state of the Internet in ". That should be easy enough to implement, and it makes
the point of how much information we disclose unintentionally while
browsing the web, so it might become a good marketing hook for the
workshop ;-)
Best,
-Javier

On 11/22/2011 02:11 PM, RubenBloemgarten wrote:

I suppose that depends on what we want the frontpage to do. The way I see it, it should provoke interest and incite action. Have lots of dynamics (Glowing areas, ripple effects and such) The most obvious action I imagine is ¨What about my country ?¨. Which would mean making the country a link. As we are relating processed data to legal entities (i.e. countries) it seems obvious to me to do so. I´m not sure whether disregarding the ¨standard¨ zoom gesture would be objectionable.

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[codehead]

Oh, that's marketese for an invitation to the user to do something. Take a look at the homepage now, right below the map.
James, do you think we should keep this message? What would be a good place/style for it?