2017 Website: UX Design + Front-End Development
For this project, the web manager, our communications director, and I met with stakeholders to understand what goals constituents have for the website, how they use the website, and how they produce the content that will go on the website. That information allowed me to design a site that fulfills their desires while working with the way people update content. This website is meant to showcase work from all departments equally, even if departments participate minimally.
This was the first large-scale web project I designed and coded.
I built a custom CSS grid, used PHP code to randomize student and faculty work to give the appearance of frequent updates, and produced fully-responsive pages to use as templates for types of content. Our former web manager added additional PHP features and we used these pieces to create templates for the whole site. The project took about six months and is fully-custom responsive design. This website was not in a content management system but was fully custom PHP, JS, HTML, and CSS coded by us.
2017 Website: Awards
The College of Design website won a Maroon and Gold Award from the University of Minnesota Communicators Forum.
2017 Website: Images
This website launched in 2017 and was live until March of 2021 when the second, larger website redesign went live.
2021 Website: UX Design
In 2019 we began a large overhaul of the College of Design website. Prior to this, the college had a website, but each individual program, center, or project also had its own website. This was a user experience nightmare and was difficult to keep updated with accurate information. We decided to collect all of the content under one website that would be hosted on Drupal 9, which is a content management system.
We collaborated with program heads to gather and audit the content, and worked with a development firm to move our UX design to Drupal.
I co-chaired the web redesign committee, which was comprised of myself, the communications director, and a representative from each of the college's programs. In addition, I acted as the art director, designing drafts of the UX for web and mobile. Finally, I helped to edit and move content from our old site to the new site, after our web communications team completed their content audit.
The Drupal 9 College of Design website went live in March 2021.
2021 Website: Images
