Information Architecture:
2008
Launch the Site
2007
For the Career Services Office Web Site my objective was to redesign http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/careers/ I chose this project because it has real-world complexity and had potential benefit to me and users. The visibility of the project would also inspire a lot of user feedback, from fellow iSchoolers. The site is already populated with content but is not optimally organized. The information for this site could be presented in more graphical and expressively. There are many pockets of pages where current users are stuck scrolling and scrolling through plain text. There was much improvement to be made to this site especially in regards to the architecture that supports the somewhat unwieldy and dull content. But, there are many existing policies that will stay in place thus minimizing the new improved feel which may affect qualitative post evaluations, and the perception of the site.
The primary objective was to re-design the information architecture of the site according to the needs of its users. The goal was of the user-interface design was to build a low-fi interface that supported the new architecture in order to improve user experience. The user interface here was a subordinate goal of the project so the changes to the look, feel and operation will be refined after validating the design of the information architecture through recorded user testing. Later, changes to the interface will be refined and tested according to the Keevil's heuristic test.