Site Improvements: Enhancing User Experience
This document outlines planned improvements to the Bonney Lab digital garden that will enhance user experience, improve content accessibility, and better showcase our research contributions.
Design Enhancements
Typography & Readability
- Update font selection for improved readability
- Implement more sophisticated typographic hierarchy
- Enhance whitespace usage for better content digestion
- Improve visual rhythm throughout the site
Visual Communication
- Develop consistent visualization templates for research data
- Create improved diagrams for methodology explanation
- Implement more effective visual hierarchy for knowledge navigation
- Design custom iconography for research categories
Content Architecture
Progressive Disclosure
- Reorganize content with intuitive progression from overview to details
- Create summary sections with pathways to deeper content
- Implement contextual navigation based on content relationships
- Design content structure that rewards deeper exploration
Research Presentation
- Create improved templates for research overviews
- Develop standardized methodology documentation formats
- Implement better visualization of research lineage and influences
- Design more effective presentation of results and implications
Interactive Elements
Research Tools
- Develop interactive demonstrations of methodologies
- Create tool templates with consistent usage patterns
- Implement improved attribution mechanisms for research tools
- Design modular components for research data exploration
Enhanced Navigation
- Create relationship-based navigation between content areas
- Implement contextual recommendations for related content
- Develop visual navigation aids for research categories
- Design improved information architecture
Content Strategy
Communication Clarity
- Develop more effective writing templates for different content types
- Implement consistent tone and voice throughout the site
- Create improved documentation standards
- Design clearer presentation of complex concepts
Scientific Context
- Develop improved methods for showing relationships to existing research
- Create better visualization of how our work extends established approaches
- Implement clearer attribution mechanisms
- Design better presentation of research influences
Implementation Timeline
This improvement process will be implemented gradually over the next 3-6 months, with initial focus on typography and readability enhancements, followed by content restructuring and interactive elements.
Feedback on these improvements is welcome as they are implemented.
These improvements focus on making our research more accessible, engaging, and valuable to the scientific community while maintaining the highest standards of academic communication.