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A few years ago, I redesigned several calendar interfaces for the Boston University community of more than 40,000 people. It was a good challenge, given the large audience and the range of user profiles. The main objective was to improve the user experience, something there wasn’t time for in the first release. My project roles included user interface designer and project manager.
Some improvements I designed included
- fewer fields on event displays and submission forms
- more logical field groupings and group headings
- client-side dynamic elements, showing what’s needed only when it’s needed
- simpler and more scannable search results
Click any of the thumbnails below to view them full size, or you can peruse (“peruse”!) the Calendar 1.1 project site on the BU Web.
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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:
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