Metaphors are basic to our understanding of our world (Lakoff & Johnsson 1980) and they can be consciously used to support imagination of something not yet established and the communication of unshared experience by transferring a shared experience and apply it to the new domain.
A kitchen is a set of tools to design, produce, deliver and consume tasteful and nutritional units for eating. As the ICT manager of the team, I designed our kitchen. Our kitchen elements:
1) Team news and events – Announcements regarding the team and our project
2) Task List – Tasks assigned to specific users or the whole team regarding the project
3) Our digital dinner concept – discussions regarding the project such as “How to name our digital dinner”
4) Links – Useful, interesting links for other web pages
5) Event Schedule – Calendar for our meetings and due dates
6) Infodocs – Our sharable documents open to modification
7) Site Users – All the users of the site
8) Images of inspiriting sites
These are the main elements in the middle of the kitchen. Besides them, there are additional elements placed in the menu.
- Picture gallery
- 2A Wiki
- Discussion board
- Surveys and some more.
I’ve also created a separated digital dinner (web page) for every user of the kitchen allowing to the whole team to learn how to use the kitchen and serve delicious dinners.
