![University of Alberta site on desktop, tablet, and mobile](http://www.karenchow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ualberta-all-devices.jpg)
UAlberta home page
![University of Alberta Faculty home page](http://www.karenchow.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/ualberta-faculty-all-devices.jpg)
UAlberta faculty page
![University of Alberta department home page](http://www.karenchow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ualberta-department-all-devices.jpg)
UAlberta department page
Sitemaps
I created sitemaps based on both business goals and user needs. Our team used journey maps, card sorts, A/B testing, and user interviews as part of its strategy. Since most of our sites were redesigns, I was also able to access visitor data, search terms, and heat maps to see which content needed to be surfaced and which could be removed.
![RehabMedFaculty_IA4](http://www.karenchow.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/RehabMedFaculty_IA4-1024x711.png)
Faculty sitemap
![RehabMedDepartments_IA4](http://www.karenchow.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/RehabMedDepartments_IA4.png)
Department sitemap
As a member of the design team at University of Alberta Digital Strategy, my role involved:
- Communicating with clients, analytics team, and UX researcher to determine business and user goals for the campus's websites
- Creating wireframes showing proposed user paths through sites
- Designing interfaces and writing HTML and CSS for site components such as media galleries, news teasers, forms, event lists, and carousels
- Supporting the University's brand by using the official colour palette, typography, logos and other aspects of the visual identity
- Continuously improving the functionality and usability of UAlberta's main site and subsite templates
- Developing workshops for UAlberta's trainers in order to educate web users on best practices
- Providing user support for Sitecore, our content management system
This site won a Canadian Regional EduStyle Award for Best Overall Website in 2013.
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