I was never really all that impressed with the NASA website of the past:
I found it somewhat difficult to navigate and they really did a great job of making you explore the search for the information your looking for. Great if you have a lot of time to kill and your interested in spending more time searching for what your looking for then reading about that thing. But now...
So... who is the target audience for this website? What possessed the people behind the design of this site to have meetings and decide that this would be a good idea? I do give them a hand up however for focusing on standards and accessibility more with the new site then the old but seriously now? I don't dream of greater things and new technologies looking at this website. Instead I envision a tired old has been trying to be hip and cool. It's one thing to try and be like others, but when your in the space industry and the entire world looks at you as a leader of space exploration and pioneering I suggest you spend a little more time with information management. I also suggest you ditch the local science museum exhibit look and color scheme and focus more on minimalism. After all if your traveling into space the last thing you want is unnecessary cargo that could endanger the mission.
Now that my personal rant on how terrible the re-design of www.nasa.gov is, I hope to hear from some of you how you feel about it. I will sum up my feelings with a qoute from the world of tomorrow.
"Space, it seems to go on and on forever. But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you."
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NASAs target audience is Johnny 5. MORE INPUT!!
i think any actual content gets lost in their attempt of organizing it. i clicked on the "moon & mars" link in the news drop down and i was brought to an equally confusing page...
now that guy who sits across from chris is saying something to me and i'm just staring while i type this.
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