Project Incodelta
2002 · Web developer, user research
Incodelta’s job was to make freight move better across the four southern provinces, whatever it was moving on: road, rail, water. That means a great many organisations, none of which report to each other, trying to run projects together while sitting in different towns.
The hard part is not logistics. It is that a shared project has no shared desk. Everyone has their own documents, their own version, their own idea of what was agreed. So the agency asked for somewhere the work itself could live.
What was built
An intranet that carries the projects: templates so documents come out in a consistent shape, and goal-setting tools so a project can say what it is for and be measured against it later. The point of the templates is not tidiness, it is that a document written by one organisation can be read by another without translation.
From the same base, the public website: designed, built and filled with the information the programme wanted in the open.
More than a hundred government officials worked in it, across the participating organisations.
Built with PHP, MySQL, HTML and CSS.
Two phases, two years apart
The first, from February to May 2002, was a website for the project group: concept, build and upkeep. The second, from January to August 2004, is the intranet and extranet above.
Who designed it
The layout design is mine, merged with typography chosen by someone whose name I have lost. A graphic designer supplied the style guide, logo and images; the screen layouts were left to me.