Category: Government

Tsunami Early Warning Information Graphic

Post author By Zef
Post date October 19, 2009
Categories In Click Suite, Design, Government, Ideas, Infographics, Websites
9 Comments on Tsunami Early Warning Information Graphic

When the recent 6 metre tsunami hit the Samoan region, killing 189 people, there unfortunately wasn’t time to warn their people. But there was time to warn their neighbours in the South Pacific. We failed. New Zealand had several hours to crank-up the tsunami warning machine. The police did their best to round up […]

Power to the People!

Post author By Zef
Post date May 27, 2009
Categories In Government, Provoke, Usability, User Experience

A presentation from my archives – many of the points made in these slides are still relevant today. Extracts from a workshop at GOVIS 2007. This one-day intensive workshop taught attendees how to incorporate user goals and agency needs into the web design process. Workshop presenters: Zef Fugaz, Bob Medcalf, Elyssa Timmer. Feedback from the […]

Gesturing Government

Post author By zefamedia
Post date September 15, 2008
Categories In Emerging Technologies, Government

A lot of people I’ve been talking to recently are excited by the emergence of NUI (Natural User Interfaces), but are asking “Isn’t this just for gamers?” My immediate answer is “yes”. Gamers have been the first to embrace the technology (the Nintendo Wii remote controller is one example of this). Future gaming consoles are […]

Govt details HTML switch-off plans

Post author By zefamedia
Post date July 28, 2008
Categories In Government, Satire
5 Comments on Govt details HTML switch-off plans

Technology Minister Dave Cunlife, says the Government will announce a date for the turn-off of HTML websites by 2010 – or sooner, if uptake of rich media hits 55 per cent of users. He expects there to be a six to ten month transition period before the migration to rich media is completed. New Zealand’s […]

Quantum Theory Perplexes Information Hippies in Nelson

Post author By zefamedia
Post date May 7, 2008
Categories In Government, Information Architecture, Service Design
2 Comments on Quantum Theory Perplexes Information Hippies in Nelson

Brendon Ford and I have just returned from a miniature junket in Nelson to present the mechanics behind the award-winning intranet we worked on for the Ministry of Transport back in 06/07. Quantum Content During my presentation I briefly tried to compare quantum theory to CMS-metadata-driven content – which for me has its similarities in […]

Jakob’s Top 10 Provoked!

Post author By zefamedia
Post date January 7, 2008
Categories In Government, Information Architecture, Provoke, Usability
4 Comments on Jakob’s Top 10 Provoked!

I’ve been hinting for a while that we had big news for 2008 : and now the word is out! Provoke – Project Management, Information Architecture, Implementation, Development. Capiche – Visual Design.From Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, January 7, 2008 10 Best Intranets of 2008 The winners of the award for 10 best-designed intranets for 2008 are: […]

Reflections on Power to the People

Post author By zefamedia
Post date May 8, 2007
Categories In Government, Usability

Today I co-presented a full day workshop at GOVIS 2007 here in Wellington. I didn’t think I’d make it having spent the last few days in bed with an aggressive case of bacterial sinutus. Over the weekend I’d taken nasty antibiotics (for the first time in living memory), and was feeling a tad strange… My […]

stuck in a reality distortion field

Post author By zefamedia
Post date May 3, 2007
Categories In Government, Usability, Websites

If you haven’t heard from me in recent weeks it’s because I’m stupidly busy, and when I get extra busy I often end up in a strange ‘reality distortion field’ where the busier I get the more I suddenly decide to take on. I don’t know if this is a sign of abject stupidity or […]

Reprasent!

Post author By zefamedia
Post date March 4, 2007
Categories In Government, Information Architecture, Websites

The new few months are going to be busy in Wellington when it comes to conferences and presentations.

This time I’m involved in a few myself…

New Govt Web Guidelines

The new version of the New Zealand Government Web Guidelines is out for consultation – get in quick as consultations close on 31 October 2006. The whopping 132-pages of Guidelines have been reviewed and rewritten by a working group of several government agencies, with input by industry accessibility experts and the Usability Professionals Association. The […]

Statisfaction

Post author By zefamedia
Post date June 22, 2006
Categories In Government, Opinion, Usability, Websites
2 Comments on Statisfaction

A few months ago I kicked up a fuss about the usability and interaction design of the first New Zealand Online Census. Just having completed my own design projects for the SJS registration forms and E-Government compliance for Grants Online, I was surprised at how the Online Census differed so radically from what I considered […]

Online Census Flopped?

Post author By zefamedia
Post date March 27, 2006
Categories In Government, Usability, Websites

The online census attracted less than half the expected number the Dominion Post reported yesterday. Less than half the expected number of people filled out the new Online Census.The paper reported that Statistics NZ had hoped that 15-20 per cent of the population would complete the census online, based on dry runs conducted last year […]

Kissing the Lips of E-govt

Post author By Zef
Post date February 29, 2004
Categories In Design, Government, Strategy, Websites

Achieving e-Government compliance for public sector websites will require a makeover that’s greater than skin-deep. Zef Fugaz looks at the realities of putting public service websites on the operating table and making them skip to an e-Government beat. Trevor has spoken. By 2006 all public service websites will have to be well and truly on […]