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Poverty Over – A Case Study, Part 4 – Delivering

Written by Andy Weir. Posted on March 28, 2011. Filed under production, project management, work. Tagged , , , , , , . 46 Comments.
In the final phase of this Poverty Over Infographic Case Study, not only were we delivering the actual flash interactive infographic, but we were finishing off the rest of the website build as well. I’ve not mentioned it up until now but all this work was going on simultaneously to the infographic.
The website involved creating templated pages for 8 factors that often surround countries in poverty. Each page has a case study and eventually will have content created by The Guardian newspaper. We created a simple templated system that allows Christian Aid to update this content in their own time – without an expensive CMS behind it.

As well as the website build we created the 8 specific animations for each factor that usually surrounds poverty.
An example of which is here:
In reality the website and animation delivery went very smoothly – credit to our designer, developer and animator!
So, we had delivered the site in its final connected up state. The infographic was in place and most content was now sitting on the website. Naturally this was the first time that the client had seen everything in context of each other. We entered a period of tweaks, minor functionality and design improvements.
In the background we were rigorously functionality testing, system and browser testing. It is important though that at this stage of the project we look all the way back to the original goals of the communication and ask ourselves whether we’ve achieved what we set out to do?

It was our job to display and highlight the following key parts of the story:

1. The world has, on the most part, moved out of poverty especially over the last 60 years.
2. There are however vast parts of Africa and Asia that still have a a way to go.
3. Countries that have been extremely poor before have come out of poverty.
4. With further investment, development and aid – it is possible to move the countries remaining in poverty into prosperity.

So have we achieved what we set out to do? Well, early indications are that sharing of the site through Twitter and Facebook is going through the roof – which is nice to hear. However, in the spirit of continuous improvement – let us know what you think. Does it work? What could we have done better? We’ll take your comments on board and hopefully bear them in mind on our next interactive infographic!

Poverty Over – An Interactive Infographic

Written by Andy Weir. Posted on March 15, 2011. Filed under Blog, production, work. Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , . 39 Comments.

Poverty Over

I’m really pleased to announce our latest work, in collaboration with BMB in London and for Christian Aid – check out povertyover.christianaid.org.uk.

In the coming days we’ll be blogging more about how we took this idea from scamp stage – right through to the finished product, to give you more of an insight into how we work. But now… back to the work.

The aim of the website is to show a history of poverty, illustrating that over the last two hundred years many countries have come out of poverty and have entered prosperous periods of development. Hopefully by showing that many countries can leave poverty behind, it will inspire you to invest in and develop the world’s remaining poor countries.

For WEIR+WONG – the challenge has been to visually interpret what was in effect a spreadsheet with 500 years worth of data for 285 countries. Our team of designers, developers and animators have come up with something which is genuinely compelling to look at, showing us a history of the world’s poverty and allowing us to delve deeper into the information.

In recent years there has been an explosion of Infographics on the web. Some of it looks amazing and communicates its data really well. However, there is so much of  it that looks great but is difficult to understand. The message muddled by the medium perhaps. I guess the most striking fact is that most of it is just really static. There are so many Jpegs or PDFs that warrant a first look but nothing more. We were really keen to be involved in an Infographic that was pretty, easy to understand as well as interactive.

We really enjoyed working on this project and hope that you enjoy looking at it too! The development process was extremely challenging and involved lots of collaboration from technologists, animators and developers in order to achieve this result. If you’d like to find out more, we’ll be releasing a series of case studies looking at each part of the project over the coming days, we hope you enjoy this, and we hope it encourages you to get involved to help bring poverty to an end.