{"id":426,"date":"2009-02-01T20:30:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T01:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/?p=426"},"modified":"2009-04-14T01:26:35","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T06:26:35","slug":"repaving-the-dmv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/01\/repaving-the-dmv\/","title":{"rendered":"Repaving the DMV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/fss\/520376936\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/orange_ghia.jpg?resize=460%2C307\" alt=\"orange Ghia\" title=\"orange Ghia\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/orange_ghia.jpg?w=460&amp;ssl=1 460w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/orange_ghia.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our first homework assignment for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickbilton.com\/1210\/\">Nick Bilton&#8217;s 1&#8242;, 2&#8242;, 10&#8242; class<\/a> was to redesign the front page on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydmv.state.ny.us\/\">New York State Department of Motor Vehicles site<\/a>. Not a difficult thing to improve upon, but still hard to get <em>right<\/em>. For me the assignment was complicated by the fact that I don&#8217;t know shit about what people want from the DMV site, since I don&#8217;t drive (though I do have a license, to the astonishment of all and sundry; my ongoing act of service to humanity is to abstain from using it). So for inspiration, I looked at some DMV sites from other states, as well as few government  sites from abroad:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dmv.ca.gov\/\">California<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colorado.gov\/cs\/Satellite\/Revenue-MV\/RMV\/1177024843128\">Colorado<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/rmv\/\">Massachusetts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dmv.state.pa.us\/\">Pennsylvania<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dot.state.tx.us\/\">Texas<\/a><\/li>\n<li>United Kingdom: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.direct.gov.uk\/en\/Motoring\/index.htm\">Directgov : Motoring<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvla.gov.uk\/\">Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iamsterdam.com\/en\/visiting\/touristinformation\/gettingaround\">Amsterdam: Getting around<\/a> &#8211; they don&#8217;t even have a DMV, as far as I could tell, since everybody rides bikes or uses public transport. Go, Holland!<\/li>\n<li>Denmark: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trm.dk\/sw153.asp\">Transport Ministry<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vejdirektoratet.dk\/roaddirectorate.asp?page=dept&#038;objno=1024\">Road Directorate<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transport.dtu.dk\/Default.aspx\">Institute for Transport<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kk.dk\/Borger\/ByOgTrafik\/ByensTrafik\/sikkerhed.aspx\">City of Copenhagen<\/a> &#8211; none of these says anything about drivers&#8217; licenses that I could find, but they all have pleasant design<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And then, after working on my mockup for about four hours, I had the delightful experience of having Illustrator crash, taking my unsaved document with it. Joy! So then I got to do it again, this time in InDesign\u2014which only took about thirty minutes, because I&#8217;m so much more ept with ID than I am with AI.<\/p>\n<p>Whine, whine. The result is as follows (click to see a PDF at actual resolution):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/india_dmv.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/india_dmv.gif?resize=460%2C607\" alt=\"DMV redesign\" title=\"DMV redesign\" width=\"460\" height=\"607\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/india_dmv.gif?w=460&amp;ssl=1 460w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/india_dmv.gif?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I focused on getting rid of most of the graphic crap, moving some obviously unimportant information out of the way, and making the bulleted lists easier to read. There&#8217;s still way too much text on the page, but without knowing what people go there to find out, I didn&#8217;t think I was qualified to cut any of it.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:smaller;color:#666;\">Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/fss\/520376936\/\">ghia<\/a> by Ryan Carver; <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/2.0\/deed.en\">some rights reserved<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first homework assignment for Nick Bilton&#8217;s 1&#8242;, 2&#8242;, 10&#8242; class was to redesign the front page on the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles site. Not a difficult thing to improve upon, but still hard to get right. For me the assignment was complicated by the fact that I don&#8217;t know shit about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/01\/repaving-the-dmv\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Repaving the DMV<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[30,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3qY10-6S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"https:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}