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Four website cases and one design process

The 2005 interaction-design portfolio puts team building, navigation and maintenance into the same account of a website.

Imagined people brace and maintain four folded-paper structures on a shared workbench.
New editorial allegory for website construction and upkeep; invented workers, not a historical design team.

The portfolio’s unit is a project

The archived Interaction page brings together DecisionCraft Analytics, Education-India, Offbeat Cards and Natcom India. Each account moves through role, challenge, action and claimed result. It is a portfolio written by Anjali Arora about her own work, not an independent evaluation of the projects. Its most useful evidence concerns what she chose to connect: recruiting a team sits beside prototyping screens, and routine upkeep sits beside initial launch.

A design has people on both sides

The four cases expose different boundaries. DecisionCraft has to explain specialist work to several audiences. Education-India has to organise material for students. Offbeat Cards needs distinctive content without a large production budget. Natcom is described as serving users with older browsers and limited technical confidence. The page reports success in each case, but supplies no comparable analytics or usability-study dataset. Those success statements remain attributed claims.

Maintenance changes the meaning of an interface

The repeated attention to staff autonomy makes this more than a collection of attractive screens. A navigation system must be understandable to the people publishing into it as well as those reading it. The portfolio’s organisational detail supports that interpretation; it does not establish how the teams actually performed. This edition keeps that distinction while reconnecting the four cases at a useful historical address.

Sources and edition note

This is new independent writing at the historical /interaction.htm address. It reconnects the specific work or project described above. It does not claim byte-for-byte restoration, original browser behaviour, current artist representation or operation of an earlier service. Source images, documents and full texts remain at their archival sources.