User Research

Our design team focused on gathering information from our users by putting together a series of questions. They interviewed current faculty, staff, and students about their experience with the existing website. The results helped us decide what recommendations were important for the new website.

Site Architecture

The existing University website architecture was examined in detail. This research allowed us to determine size and scope of the project. It also found duplicate content which made it difficult for users to navigate the site using site navigation and search engines.

Wireframes

After identifying our most important tasks and reviewing our site architecture we began creating low fidelity black and white wireframe prototypes. These wireframes helped us make key decisions on global navigation and visual hierarchy to our most important pages.

User Testing

Mobile wireframe prototype workflows were also reviewed with current students and faculty to get additional feedback.

Visual Designs

Once the user research process was complete we created components and high-fidelity prototypes in Invision to share with our internal team and stakeholders.

HTML Component Prototypes

After the visual design was completed we built the HTML for the individual components of the website. Each component is developed using HTML and JavaScript, then tested for WCAG 2.0 Level AA accessibility.