Content Reuse at St. Andrews

When I worked as an information architect at Dynamic Diagrams, I got the chance to contribute wireframes for a complete redesign of the University of St. Andrews website. The project was interesting because the project lead, Mac Mcburney, had architected the site with a CMS backend that single-sourced certain content across user groups (the standard university constituencies: students (current and perspective), alumni, parents, faculty, staff). This meant that the information groupings and layout for the same content chunks had to work across user groups, as varied as they were.

Our work at the project ended at requirements and wireframes, along with some visual design. It was interesting to see how close the final pages were, after more thorough visual design stages and implementation, to the wireframes. The site has been out a few years now and the pages are still close to the originals. That’s satisfying.

Click the thumbnails to view a PDF file of some of the wireframes I created: