{"id":2671,"date":"2009-11-25T12:01:41","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T12:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.duke.edu\/blogs\/digital-collections\/?p=2671"},"modified":"2010-12-15T20:24:33","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T20:24:33","slug":"item-pages-prototypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/digital-collections\/2009\/11\/25\/item-pages-prototypes\/","title":{"rendered":"Item Pages \u2013 Prototypes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gomockingbird.com\/mockingbird\/index.html?project=fc9eb1fc03ff475679fe322089824537e0f06380\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2731\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/digital-collections\/files\/2009\/11\/itempage-prototype-c-thumb1.jpg\" alt=\"itempage-prototype-c-thumb\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/digital-collections\/files\/2009\/11\/itempage-prototype-c-thumb1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/digital-collections\/files\/2009\/11\/itempage-prototype-c-thumb1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/digital-collections\/files\/2009\/11\/itempage-prototype-c-thumb1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have <a href=\"http:\/\/library.duke.edu\/blogs\/digital-collections\/2009\/10\/19\/item-pages-what-weve-learned\/\">learned a lot<\/a> about how to improve our item pages and we&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/library.duke.edu\/blogs\/digital-collections\/2009\/10\/23\/item-pages-inspiring-sites\/\">gathered great examples<\/a> from around the web as inspiration.\u00a0 We&#8217;re now ready to share some wireframe prototypes.<\/p>\n<p>There are <a href=\"http:\/\/gomockingbird.com\/mockingbird\/index.html?project=fc9eb1fc03ff475679fe322089824537e0f06380\">four different wireframe prototypes here<\/a>. Use the &#8216;Jump To&#8217; section at the top to look at versions A, B, C, and D.\u00a0 Preferences? Ideas? Concerns? Questions? Let us know what you think!<\/p>\n<p>In addition to incorporating the feedback and ideas we&#8217;ve gathered so far, here are a few additional key things these designs attempt to address:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bring the objects to life by enabling comments and both encouraging and capturing discourse around them in other places on the web (like Twitter, blogs, Facebook).\u00a0 We&#8217;re looking at different services to help meet this objective.<\/li>\n<li>Add a main navigation bar to help people more easily browse for <a href=\"http:\/\/library.duke.edu\/blogs\/digital-collections\/2009\/11\/24\/search-analysis-what-weve-learned\/\">the kinds of things we know they often look for via searches<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Increase engagement with the site from the item pages by providing enticing leads to related stuff, whether entire collections or individual objects.\u00a0 We want to see item pages less as destination pages, and more as jumping-off points to the rest of our content.<\/li>\n<li>Let items belong to multiple &#8216;collections&#8217; though maintain strong context, branding, and contact info for the item&#8217;s primary collection.<\/li>\n<li>Help the site better serve an international audience. We&#8217;re considering using the <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/translate-your-website-with-google.html\">Google Translate widget<\/a> as one approach.\u00a0 You can see it in action at sites like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museumoflondon.org.uk\/English\/\">Museum of London<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerhousemuseum.com\/\">Powerhouse Museum.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Incorporate new posts from our <a href=\"http:\/\/library.duke.edu\/blogs\/digital-collections\">blog<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dukedigitalcoll\">Twitter account<\/a> to keep fresh content on the page and encourage people to connect with us.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have learned a lot about how to improve our item pages and we&#8217;ve gathered great examples from around the web as inspiration.\u00a0 We&#8217;re now ready to share some wireframe prototypes. There are four different wireframe prototypes here. Use the &#8216;Jump To&#8217; section at the top to look at versions A, B, C, and D.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/digital-collections\/2009\/11\/25\/item-pages-prototypes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Item Pages \u2013 Prototypes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-website-redesign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/digital-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/digital-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/digital-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/digital-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/digital-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/digital-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8772,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/digital-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671\/revisions\/8772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/digital-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/digital-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/digital-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}