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September 1, 2006
CoolThePlanet silent launch, improvements and usability
It's been silent on the Melt blog, partly because I was unable to work for a few days, partly because we did a silent launch of www.cooltheplanet.net, and invited first people to test it out. In the meantime, we also worked on Speakup Middle East, our sister incarnation of the "Custard Melt" software. And we did a first round of improvements and fixes based on user feedback. We have a special group for that, by the way.
This week, we have Duncan, Jeremy, and Felix from ThoughtWorks over at the Greenpeace office, and Wednesday, Simon from Eight Media joined as well: discussing merging back the little bit of forking that we already introduced, getting the tests to run and be less brittle, and making the skinning more separated and easier. The next weeks, we'll do some feature improvements on forums for SpeakUp, while CoolThePlanet will be taken to the streets: Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth will soon be released globally, and many groups (including Greenpeace groups) want to take the opportunity to point out what you can do.
Tim and Alex here at Greenpeace have been spending a lot of time with Jeremy on usability and flow of navigation. Alex spent a week with our Mediterranean staff on SpeakUp, so I've been participating as much as possible to bring in the first lessons from CoolThePlanet as well, and plot a common path forward on usability.
Better sign-up process, new homepage, better navigation, less trying to show off with our google maps, rss, easier linking, there's a lot in the pipeline again. But first finish writing some of the "static texts" now...
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