University of Alberta

December 27, 2014 karen

University of Alberta site on desktop, tablet, and mobile

UAlberta home page

University of Alberta Faculty home page

UAlberta faculty page

University of Alberta department home page

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.

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Faculty sitemap

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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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