University Website Design

Meeting of Minds

As a result of restructuring, we conducted a needs assessment study by interviewing academic and nonacademic stakeholders including department heads to understand the best way to redesign the college's website and introduce the new structure and website to the college community of users, including administrators, staff, affiliates and students. Based on our findings we developed functional specifications and use case studies which laid the foundations for information architecture diagrams and wireframes. After finalizing the site's structural navigation and feature lists, three interface design options were explored and presented to the college. We hired the production team and worked with the college's IT staff to launch the site. In addition we drew the entire college site into the first comprehensive content map and provided online user style guides, html templates and tables of downloadable icons, graphics and headers.