The goal of this project was to redesign the current wikipedia website in a group of three people. We had to use innovative approaches to interactive design to access a complex set of information. Our group discussed the pros and cons of this online general knowledge bank. We had concluded that there is a disconnection between how the encyclopedia was resourced in the past to the current online process in both aesthetic and multi dynamic and researchable avenues. We had decided to bring the offline experience of a knowledge bank closer to the online experience.
      To resurge this vernacular, we have introduced the concept of "stashes" which includes a list of search results and a workstation for organizing collected scraps, notes, or excerpts--like photocopied prints you would make at an off-line library--from the searched entries. We wanted to eliminate the step of using a word processing program by allowing the user to export items in the "wiki_stash" easily.
      The idea of serendipity is incorporated in the search results of each article as well. You can see in the search results, towards the bottom part of the page, a lever that will give you a list of words. When the lever is closer to the "hot" end, the list of words are closely related to the searched word, and when the lever is closer to the "cold" end of the spectrum, the list of words are less related to searched word. Serendipity and a sense of community is also achieved on the initial page of our design because of the list of popular stashes that have been saved by other users.
      The boxes on the left side of the search results is an easy preview of how much information there are on a searched word in wikipedia. This can bring back the sense of holding a book that is 1000 pages thick as opposed to a book that is 100 pages thick.