Information Architecture

Task description; Design and document a consept for a new TV-guide. You should be able to navigate and get an overview of 50 channels.

Working together with Ivan Milanovic  ivan.mivaco.com at this project. We took a look at some of the tv-guides that exist today and discussed them;

http://www.dagbladet.no/tvprogram/

http://www.vg.no/tv-guide/
http://www.aladin.info/tv/
http://www.tv2.no/tvguide/
http://no.dagenstv.com/chart/colview.asp?fp=1
http://pub.tv2.no/nettavisen/do/tvguide/search?category=alle&day=0&timeslot=0&sort=time&textquery=&channel=tv2&channel=nrktv1&channel=nrktv2&channel=tv3
http://www.bt.no/kultur/tvguide/
http://www.tvguide.co.uk/
http://www.nrk.no/tv/
http://tv.msn.com/tv/guide/
http://tv.yahoo.com/listings
http://www.tvguide.com/listings/default.aspx
http://www.onthebox.com/
http://www.tv.com/listings/index.html?start_date=2009-08-26&start_time=00:00:00&later=1&tag=listings_grid;later
http://tvlistings.aol.com/listings/ca/los-angeles/time-warner-cable-standard?zipcode=90001
http://www.tvzap.com/
http://yourtv.com.au/guide/index.cfm
http://www.pogdesign.co.uk/cat/

We agreed that we like Dagbladets new tv-guide the best, it look new, in the time and fresh. It is pretty much based on all the features we see in all tv-guides. We miss the social aspect of it, could a tv-guide be a social network like facebook? Talking about the different series and films, commeting, rating and suggestions to your friends? We also think Dagbladets tv-guide is a bit messy with too much information and features at once. And we don’t like the way you scroll thru time.

We want to work on the visuals and see how it would be to start with a small meny first, to choose your interest. Starting from very little, building the guide bigger by choosing more and more information instead of the usual way, taking away things. There is very few people that need all that information.

We also got inspired by different Norwegian tv channels tv guides and film guides like TV3, TV2, FEM, TV NORGE.

http://www.tv3.no/film/

Her er noen av de første utkastene til vår tv-guide;

Here are the final result (consept skisse) after 2 weeks:

You have one main page for everything. You can see what is on at this moment and you can turn it into a film or sportsguide etc. You can work with the channels inside the program by drag and drop channels to move them in order and you can delite them. By going inside and clicking on series or news you get that catagory up, the side starts empety with catagorys. In that way you don’t have to see any information you are not interested in. In addiction you have to orange buttons at the top where you can choose days and channels.

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~ by anestromsaether on August 26, 2009.