Weekly Recap 11/24-12/04

November, where did you go?

What I did:

3 hours thinking and making mock ups for the kit booklets
2 hours making a complete eligibility map
1 hour working on glossary terms
1 hour beginning to flesh out complete content of eligibility booklet

What I discovered, accomplished, encountered:

The mock ups have been really helpful, especially for the filing booklet.  Within that booklet I plan to have a number of plastic sleeves to keep the forms in and all the other documents that will need to be collected, such as birth certificates, passport photos, marriage certificates etc.

Making the complete eligibility map was really great too because now I can see the entire process and evaluate the consistency of my language as a whole.  I've also discovered that my content overview and eligibility maps need to be either interacting more or separated more.  The content overview addresses the basic questions that could be asked and that will be answered within the book and the process map is a simple "who's eligible" map.  Maybe the process map should be split up so that each section (immigrants, U.S. Citizen sponsors, and Perm. Res. Sponsors) has a detailed map at the beginning.  Although I think it would be helpful to have an overview in the beginning.

(The gray would potentially be color coding for each section, I realized how overwhelming the page is without some separation between them.  It doesn't necessarily have to be a background but there definitely needs to be clear separation.)

During critique yesterday we talked about how the glossary could be incorporated in conjunction with the pages instead of as a list in the beginning or end. I also need to address at the beginning some disclosure that says "if you don't fit into one of these categories you are not eligible for family based immigration" and maybe one for really complicated situations that they should see a lawyer or clinic for help.

The glossary terms are really important to me because I want to give specific definitions that put it into context of immigration rather than just a dictionary definition.

Whats Next:  
Keep fleshing out the content.  Things seem to be moving a little bit faster now that I have taken these steps.
Also, work on presentation.