(CLOSED) Evolve: What is Missing
What is missing from the draft of SAMHSA’s new home page?
SAMHSA recently posted a draft version of a new SAMHSA.gov home page (www.samhsa.gov/evolve) and we are looking for feedback about what might be missing. Using the forum below, let us know if there is any information, service or web functionality that you feel deserves to be highlighted as part of the new SAMHSA.gov home page. Suggestions can be narrow or broad but please provide as much specificity as your are able about your idea.
Please remember that the prototype presented on www.samhsa.gov/evolve is only a draft and that significant changes are likely to come. Information about how user feedback was used in the development of the draft page is on the SAMHSA Blog – Project Evolve: Another Step Forward (http://blog.samhsa.gov/2012/01/03/project-evolve-another-step-forward).
Please share widely and encourage everyone interested in SAMHSA’s work to participate.
This forum will close on 1/23/2012.
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Headlines - What's New
I like the overall new design. I would recommend only adding a prominent place near the top of the homepage to feature a current News Item or headline.
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"What's New?"
Link to new reports, etc
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spell out "FOIA" and "RSS"
researcher
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Website
Design seems clean. But has the time-out problem been fixed? That's the real problem.
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Make a more prominent request to sign up for SAMHSA social media or mailing list.
Check out this list of the 25 best social media websites of the year: http://bit.ly/rBH26K.
All of them featured movies, infographics, and social media appeals very prominently. SAMHSA should ask nearer the top for people to connect with their more interactive online presences.
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More emphasis on emotional distress and less emphasis on "conditions and disorder"
The disease model of mental illness is not that strongly evidence based. Rather than having a conditions/disorders tab at the top, you could indicate something like, "What's bothering you?" The choices could be things like poor housing options, needing help with sleep or nutrition habits, need better employment opportunities, problems relating to my family, past overwhelming trauma experiences, more exercise advice, poor spiritual connections, grief, or trouble relating to my family. All of these things are much more strongly linked to emotional distress than the typical names we use for "conditions/disorders." The disease model tab could still be at the…
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Move "I am a" to where the data highlights are
Overall nice but I think extracting one of the images and then shifting the "I am a" line to where the data highlights are might provide an interface that is a bit more user friendly. Thank you.
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child/sibling <put in lower left hand corner>
I lost my childhood and teen years and my own family--actually my entire life because I focused on the mental health system just to make sure I "never lost it" because I had a mother and sister that were institutionalized and many myths have surfaced about mental health that I have the factual experiences how generational stereotype creates pain and suffering for all...I am the oldest of six that will never be a family because of this system. But unlike what most expect me to feel my bitterness is more with the support system surviving us rather than the system--I…
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Move the "I am a" above the fold
I really like the "I am a" section, and I think it should be moved higher on the page, maybe next the "Find Help" box. I don't think parents, teens, and family members will care as much about Data Spotlights as they will about information geared to their immediate needs.
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