Blogging to redesign the website

Here is a very good idea from The Ohio State University (thanks to Will Richardson, the K-12 blog guru from Weblogg-Ed for the tip) .

The Communication and Marketing Department at OSU has been using a web blog “to inform the Ohio State community about the process behind an upcoming redesign of (the) web site’s front door, as well as associated, new second-level pages.”

The OSU redesign webblog is a central place to share design sketches, project updates and suggestions. Thanks to the “comment” blog feature, any stakeholder who follows the project can easily give feedback.

I really think this blog beats the traditional redesign committee’s status reports and meetings, because it gives every stakeholder a chance to look at the design in the context it’s supposed to work – on a computer screen – and to give instant – yet articulated – written feedback.

MORE: I’ve just found another redesign blog: A New Arizona.edu. It was just started last month, but it’s already promising as The University of Arizona‘s web team has an impressive website redesign resume.

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