UVic.ca Website Redesign
DESCRIPTION Renovation project for the main UVic.ca website and the creation of the campus-wide global navigation and Common Look and Feel for Departments and Faculties (Schools).
The key things we wanted to find out were what needed to be improved with the current website, what was working well, what could be added or even removed. Andrew Jung served as the Information Architect and provided the key directions for implementation, data gathering, analysis; as well as providing process documentation and workflows for migration of sub-sites.
RESPONSIBILITIES Researched, and directed team of designers and developers in the new architecture for uvic.ca and sub-sites to successfully promote UVic’s 50th anniversary. Numerous high-level and low-level stakeholder meetings, workshops and interviews to gather needs, requirements and key objectives and concerns.
Discovery activities included Surveys, one-on-one interviewing and content evaluations sessions with end-users to inform user focus and organization; heuristic reviews, content auditing and inventories, comparative analysis of the current sites to prepare the migration to the new information architecture of the new sites which was created by various methods such as content card sorting, wireframes, prototype user testing and accessibility reviews.
Design activities included Interaction design and Information Architecture for implementation and migration into the new campus CMS; Website buildout support and co-ordination for developers, designers providing content strategies to ensure a site creation that match the key objectives and outcomes and validated through usability testing and heuristic review and recommendations.
SKILLS Project Management, workshop facilitation, user analysis and discovery, user testing, surveying, content audits, card sorts, controlled vocabulary, stakeholder management, UX Reporting, user modelling, usability studies, storyboarding, rapid prototyping, wireframe design, forward feature planning, content strategy, workflow documentation.
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