Unique Features on Our Site

This page was set up to provide a quick look at some of the more innovative and interactive features that have been developed for the sites at Gillette Children's.

Brain Map

The Brain Map was created to be a training piece for elementary-age school children. Uses of the map can include assisting a child who is returning to school after a brain injury and providing information to the classmates about the parts of the brain, their functions, and what happens with an injury occurs. (The second piece of this type is the Spinal Cord Map.)

Interactive Staff Directory

This staff directory was created to make it easier for people in the organization to make direct contact with someone in the Human Resources department. If you remembered the face but not the name, you could roll over the face and see the phone number, the person's responsibilities and by clicking the image, the email window was opened. Alternatively, the employee could select the topic and go the page with more information and contact information. NOTE: This piece was taken out of it's installed environment, so the underlying links are no longer valid. The interface, however, still shows the level of interaction that was available.

Patient Education Video

This patient education video, "How to put on and take off an AFO" is a proof of concept piece for our Rehab Therapies department. The methodology was approved 4/12/10, and the process of selecting topics has begun. Our intention is to leverage the impact of combining this visual medium with the printed document to achieve better understanding of and compliance with physicians' and therapists' directions.  This method was expanded to include a rich media PDF that streams the video into the PDF document for ondemand delivery.

Donation Page Mockup

This example of a Donation Page is one of many that were designed and tested for our Web site. The objective was to make it possible for a person to make a donation on one screen without scrolling or stepping through multiple pages.

Training Tutorial

This training piece, "Content Maintenance," tries to address the complexity of one particular process on our website. The written "cheat sheet" is relatively clear, but because there is no conventional vocabaulary established for the various pieces of the process, language ends up getting in the way of providing good instruction. The video overcomes that problem because you are able to see the process and thus "what you call it" is less important because you see what is being referenced. This is the first time I've tried using this method to provide instructions for a complex technique inside our Content Management System.

Cure Pity Site

This redesign of our CurePity.org site was built on the concept that in a true micro site, the content should come to the user rather than the user having to go after the content. Patterns of usage showed that users were coming to see the videos, so we made them all available from the first screen.

Page Layout

The three column layout of this page grew out of the awareness that many web surfers skim text so lightly that they may miss some really important items. These items, as well as items of relevance, can be placed in the third column with a graphic representation to help catch the eye. The middle column is "raised" visually to help give it focus and suggest to the reader that this is the stuff you came here to find.