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Lesson 1: Everyone in a platform or community has their own needs and capacities
A spatial data publication platform is an online platform which enables different users to publish, view or edit spatial data. To make the platform succesfull and widely supported, the platform must meet user’s needs and be adapted to user’s expertise and tasks.
Because different users need different information, have different expertise and tasks and speak different languages.
A platform that adapts the data and features to the user, which is easy to use, creating a community.
User centred design of the platform applies: extensive attention should be given to needs, wants and limitations of the end-user. The platform has to be kept as simple as possible, in order to make it approachable for expert and non-expert owners and users of spatial data.
These features increase the ease of use and intended use:
- Make sure the needle can be found in the haystack
- Keep it simple
- Think carefully about who is allowed to do what
- Each speaks its own language and lives in his own world
Usability testing.