BBC Homepage Wireframe
This was a big challenge. How do you organise this much information and make it accessible? I had wanted to think in terms of Web 3.0 and do some crazy 'ish but I couldn't help but think about the amount of people usiong the BBC site and how at it's core it is about univeral access and for many people it leads them in their online activities.
I think of this as wire-frame/layout for the site rather than a full on design. I wanted to create usable design that show case potential new additions.
I think it goes without saying that the layout can be customised by the user.
So working from the top - down:
1. Search:
A quick search with a drop-down to narrow categories. This would use auto-complete and AI to suggest searches based on your use of the site.
2. Your Favourite Pages:
Rather than set menu a users favourite pages are remebered.
3. Media Player Tab (or whatever you decided to call it) I evisage this sliding out from behind the search panel. Creating an opaque dark window over the site so that users could browse media and then close it up and continue surfing. I like the idea of being to surf the BBC site interacting with media but not having to flick between windows. I hope this approach might lead to a more fluid browsing expereince.
4. The Category Explorer
This top half of the page is divided in to two with BCC content in the middle and custom content to the right which would be pulled from third parties.
5. Popularity indexer
BBC content indexed by popularity across users.
6. Your downloads
The ability to take away content to any device is crucial and this keeps the user up to date.
7. Blogs
Popular and important I see the BBC as an eesential provider of blogging in the future. Allow users to create content.
I gotta shoot - my boss is going mental - I've spent too long on this ;)
Keep up the good work everyone.
- 26 May 2006 12:56
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