IT Conversations: Edward Adams
This is an interesting discussion of the process of redesigning the American Bar Association Journal. Previous versions of the site featured one story a day with no persistent links. The new versions features a number of updated features to move from a fairly traditional professional magazine to site that is clearly user-focused
- Dozens of new stories written by professional journalists each day.
- Analysis from more than 1,000 legal blogs, written by lawyers who are experts in their fields.
- Full text search of the 1000 blogs in the directory.
- Mobile Edition for the smart phone.
This isn’t a podcast I normally tune into, but I decided to give it a listen anyway because of the web development project we’re working on as part of the class. Turned out to be a good summary of the the thought process involved with rethinking a major professional site, with lots of lessons for us to consider in our research site. Definitely worth firing up when doing some serious time on the Arc Trainer or the commute to/from Richmond.
