Recent Articles
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Collection management: optimising collection search for the Art Gallery of South Australia
We recently launched the Collection Search feature on the Art Gallery of South Australia’s website, which enables advanced search across nearly 45,000 items. The IC’s design lead outlines the site’s search features, including a lightbox with zoom that allows you to view the artist's technique on the artwork detail page
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Alex Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas template: why use it and how
The Business Model Canvas is a strategic management template that helps businesses to describe, design and analyse their business models. This article explains the basics of the Business Model Canvas, describes why it’s useful, how to use it and provides a downloadable template of the canvas.
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Unique fundraising ideas: How to raise money for a startup or creative project
Which works best for your situation: angel investors, crowdfunding, venture capitalists, grants? Explore the differences between these funding sources and a range of unique fundraising ideas for various situations. If you want to avoid business loans, these options can help you find funding.
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Python for open data projects: who is using it and how you can too
Open data – detailed, freely available information – opens the way to many kinds of projects. Visualisations and analytics add value to it for use or resale. Public and community sector organisations, academics, governments and researchers can discover trends and needs. The possibilities are as varied as the data
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Digital transformation project: Art Gallery of South Australia’s new website
The IC has been working with one of Australia's major art institutions, the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), to envision and execute a digital transformation project. In an initial discovery phase, we collaborated with our colleagues Suzanne Boccalatte and Martin Ford at Boccalatte to uncover and envision what this change might mean.
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Launching: Adrift citizen science marine visualisation project
The Interaction Consortium is excited to announce the launch of Adrift, a science visualisation project that enables citizens to map the ocean and help ocean scientists better understand the experiences of marine microbes.
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Data migration best practice: moving 10,000 pages for the Australian Museum’s website rebuild
The Interaction Consortium recently undertook a large and complex data migration – involving more than 10,000 pages – during the site rebuild for the Australian Museum. We outline the best practice principles we applied to the Australian Museum website migration, which we use for all the large data migrations we undertake. We also go into detail about specific approaches we use involving Django and Wagtail.
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New Australian Museum website wins MAPDA award
The IC is thrilled to announce the launch of the new website for the Australian Museum, and to congratulate the Australian Museum (AM) team on this site winning the 2019 Museums Australasia Multimedia & Publication Design Awards (MAPDA) Institution Website level B award.
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Organising a museum website: the power of information architecture
A museum website contains a vast amount of detailed information, from previews of collections and exhibits, to visitor guides, research and donor lists. Information architecture provides the means to structure this huge array of content in a logical fashion, making it a vital part of museum website design that will ensure users find everything they are looking for without a clunky or overwhelming site design.
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What is Django and why is it great for creating websites?
Many websites today are created with drag-and-drop platforms such as WordPress and Joomla, but there are advantages to using a coded approach with tools like Django. Python is one of the most popular programming languages today, and Django is a tool used by Python developers to facilitate the web development process. Read on to learn how Django helps developers create fully customisable websites...
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Lean startups: The Build-Measure-Learn cycle
The primary process for lean startups is the Build-Measure-Learn cycle. This process has been the key for many lean startups to develop lasting success. Startups carry out the cycle quickly and thoroughly to refine the idea for a product into something actual customers desire.
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Pioneers, Settlers, Town Planners – How Innovation Works
Researcher Simon Wardley derived the Pioneer, Settler, Town Planner (PST) concept from Robert Cringely's Accidental Empires as an organisational model for how to support repeated, long-term innovation. It transforms traditional organizational structures into cell-based organizational structures.