Christine Boese » Site Maps

Sample Work: Site Maps, Flows, Wireframes, Navigation Schema

Chris Boese — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Sample Publishing Site Map [Visio]

Chris Boese — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Designing for Blog Publishing Projects

Chris Boese — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:03:27 +0000

This is a visual snapshot into the kinds of blog-based publishing projects I design, build, and often, host. One got 2,500 hits in its first 48 hours online. Another was the top link on Sarah Palin’s wikipedia entry at the time she was announced as a vice presidential candidate. An Argentinian warblog has been published as a book. Others get very little traffic, because they are e-books, experimental hypertextual essays, or art projects I’m committed to maintaining as part of our common online Library of Everything. Others are simply labors of love, my own contribution to the “real.”

Not too long ago, someone asked me to predict where interactive media and the Internet would be five years from now. I refused to give an answer, because I don’t get to decide. The beauty of a grassroots, bottom-up social movement like in the Blogosphere is that the social structures provide an organic kind of direction and structure, and the social structure is the authority, not “industry leaders” or “futurists” or any other professional prognosticators striving for control or a first-mover advantage.

Interactivity is about giving up control.

What I strive to do as a designer and a participant in this grassroots social movement is to create tools that empower the most people with enough freedom to set their own directions. I’m not interested in herding cats. I am interested in watching and learning inductively from where cats go.

Atlanta Media Bloggers (launched 2006, now dormant)
Original artwork by Denny Lester.
Link: www.serendipit-e.com/mediabloggers

Weston Productions News site
(launched 2004, now dormant)
Link: www.serendipit-e.com/weston

Spinning and Being Spun: The idea of journalism in a postmodern age (launched 2005, now dormant)
Link: www.serendipit-e.com/spinning

Serendipit-e, Inc. Communities and Tools for Active Learners
(launched 2000 in HTML, relaunched Typepad 2003, now dormant) Link: www.serendipit-e.com

my cnn: employee news intranet blog + alerts moblog
(in development 2006, now dormant).
no public access

my cnn: employee news alerts moblog
(in development 2006, now dormant).
no public access

A Bluestem Prairie: News from Minnesota’s First Congressional District (launched 2006, now one of most influential blogs in Minnesota) Link: www.bluestemprairie.com

Traveling with Crows
(launched 2006)
Link: www.serendipit-e.com/traveling_with_crows

Memorial blog for Dr. Susan Barnes (launched 2006)
2,500 hits in 1st 48 hours online, following global time zones starting in NZ/Australia within hours of launch
Link: www.serendipit-e.com/drsusanbarnes

Memorial blog for James Tillotson Whitehead
(launched 2003, featured as virtual memorial to accompany academic conference memorials)
Link: www.serendipit-e.com/whitehead

Joshua Kucera: Freelance Writer and Int’l Journalist
(launched 2003 as The Other Side)
Link: www.joshuakucera.net/

Hilltown Farmland Preservation: Information and Discussion about Farmland Preservation in Hilltown Township, PA (launched 2006) Link: www.hilltownfarmlandpreservation.org

Serendipit-e, Inc. Research Archive & Portfolio (launched 2003) Link: www.serendipit-e.com/boeseportfolio

Chris Boese’s Weblog (launched 2002)
Link: www.serendipit-e.com/blog

Headpiece Filled With Straw (poetry journal)
Link: www.serendipit-e.com/hollow

Darkroom Glories Poetry Manuscript
Link: www.serendipit-e.com/poems

Project Wet and Wild (award-winning hypertext essay)
Link: www.serendipit-e.com/wetwild

are you with me, dr. wu? (steely dan/jazz fan blog)
Link: www.serendipit-e.com/wu

Director: Clemson PSA Research Grant: ~$100,000 to build research lab, fund team, redesign portal & client sites

Chris Boese — Fri, 01 Jun 2001 00:00:00 +0000

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View Clemson PSA Portal as PDF

Clemson Public Service Activities 1998-2001 Web Redesign, Usability Test Plan and Study

Chris Boese — Mon, 14 May 2001 19:25:16 +0000

Director, PSA Interactive Resources Studio

(Sponsored Research, Web Consultant, Project, Team, and Research Manager)

(1998 to 2001) Clemson University Public Service Activities. Created interface research and testing division with 4 graduate assistants and 2 undergraduate programmers.

Built multimedia studio. Planned and implemented redesign of the PSA web site to test interface design theory (M.A.S.S). Directed team of web consultant RAs for stakeholders under the land grant university’s public service commitment.

Directed site test usability study and one RA’s (Katlin Beck) master’s project, a formal, video-data-coded usability study under an STC grant, and the team applied same methods to a formal PSA usability study.

Studio teaching of graduate and undergraduate students in interaction architecture and web consulting. About $100,000 funded over 3 years.

Interface Design and Mental Models for Doctoral Dissertation: First “Born Digital” dissertation to be accepted in U.S.: 1998

Chris Boese — Wed, 29 Jul 1998 00:00:00 +0000

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Click to view PDF of Dissertation Site Flow