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Ha! I found the website: Steven Sebring. And it's nothing like I remembered:



The website works like a scrap-table with loads of stuff lying around. The different parts of the website are actually located on this table.



I definitely don't like how they put the content but the idea of navigation. Even though it would be even nicer if you could move the picture just using the mouse instead of clicking on a link and then the image travels for you.
But I really like that the image turns and does not only move on a horizontal or vertical axe.

marginal notes:
Somebody is into the idea of circles and navigating in circles.

Wonder who? :)

I'm still very abstract - sorry.

Mmmmmh..... I'm thinking about the web application's concept. Can you tell?



I saw a cover in the same style somewhere and it just visualized what I had in mind. Unfortunately .jpg killed the bright enjoyable colors. The blue should actually be turquoise. Ah, I don't like it so dull. :-(

If you do not see a navigation concept behind that.... I'm utterly sorry. I actually wanted to link to a page, seen ages ago, but I can't find it (instead I got stuck organizing my 'favourites'). I thought that it might explain where I wanna go with navigation but you'll have to wait.

I decided on the structure board to be so fullfullfull because it is reflecting the collage-character of the web application. There will not be a typical navigation bar with the main categories and their sub categories. Each screen will include several linkages which will take the user to different sights.

The page on "continued training" for example could link to "motivation" but as well to general "concepts of education". The later would for example link to the "model employee" since the way and content of learning reveal quite a lot about desirable character traits.

I'm not sure if it works. I can understand that people get lost but for now it's my working model. Maybe I can break it down into more general categories later but in the moment that would not help me much - I need the overview...

It's done. What a relief. The structure board for my web application. I tried to put in all possible aspects of work. This might seem a little crowded at first but it reflects pretty much the collage I have in mind. Additionally, I will have to kick out points to which I will not get enough information. Thus:



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Tomorrow I'll add specific information about Poland to this abstract. Stay tuned ;-)

Qiro, ein neuer mobilen Informationsdienst, wird von den Deutsche Telekom Laboratories zur Internationalen Funkaustellung (IFA) gestartet. Mit Qiro können die Nutzer über das Handy individualisierte Informationen über ihr Umfeld erhalten. So zeigt Qiro die aktuellen Events, das Kinoprogramm, Restaurants um die Ecke genauso an wie den Aufenthaltsort von Freunden, die gerade in der Nähe sind. Bei Qiro werden erstmals auch dynamische Informationen wie die Positionen freier Mietfahrräder (Call-a-bikes) der Deutschen Bahn und Friendfinder-Funktion mit Lokalisierung und Ortsinformationen verbunden.

Read more.

Yeah.... somehow done. Will still need some modification but that's why it's called a working model.

• a bit more interaction
• try clicking on meetings or motivation for example
• trying to specify more clearly what is hidden behind the titles
• still need to work on the wording (now I mixed questions and notes and everything....)
• gave up in the middle
• not happy with it :-(

My web app is gonna be wonderful :) It's going to illustrate the daily cultural differences one - well, actually one is someone German - most likely comes about working in Poland. In order to promote understanding, culturally influenced behavior at the work place will be drawn upon historical events, educational structures, daily living conditions... That's all. (Why is "all" so difficult?)

There are four main categories: staff formation, promotion of motivation, meetings/organisation of the work flow, contact to externals. These main categories I wanted to function as independent "training"-units.

For example: contact to externals will have a page for each step that is to be taken.

1. Find somebody who knows the person you want to get into contact with, get introduced.
2. Call the "external". Talk about everything but work.
3. Write a letter. Write about everything but work.
4. Go and pay the external person a personal visit.
5. ...

In general these sub-pages-training-steps will be linked to the meta-level. The urge to establish personal bounds as foundation for business actions can be explained by the Polish history: on the one hand the control of the people by a socialistic regime brought the people closer together and on the other end during the era of deficiency in the 1980s a lot of goods for daily use for not publicly available but only by means of personal networks.

So... there is already the next problem. At what point, where in the training-unit can you navigate to the meta-level?

And to make it more complicate.... in order to have a network and to deliberate cultural complexity and to promote intuitive learning (and just to make some reasons up) I wanted the meta-levels to consist of different steps/units, too. It's like picking out a history book to look something up and then you start flipping through some pages and end up somewhere else. And at various points you jump back into the one or the other main category.

Thus.... now! Uff! What a huge knot! And my teacher wants to know what the start page will show... gee... good question. The start page, the second page, can somebody please scrap the good from the evil ideas out of my head. And worst of all.... what happens when you're confused? You fall back to the usual. I've been designing numerous websites these last days that would work for a restaurant just as well.... argh. I want my concept to show. I want the design to be nice. I want the website to be something special. I want. I want. I want.

Alright.... what needs to be on the very first page. Associate with the idea that the user has to directly see - oh, this is involving business! and oh, this is involving me going abroad to some unknown culture.

So... this is it. My state of mind. Do you still believe I'm happy with my project? I am. I'm so liking it. This is a manifesto.