The Special Collections Division of the University of Washington Libraries had not been redesigned or updated in nearly ten years. After an initial usability review, my team and I decided that the best solution was to conduct a content inventory and restructure the information architecture to best accommodate the new and old pages as well as updating the visual design.

RESULT

Consolidated duplicate content; broke content into more digestible chunks; created streamlined step-by-step guidelines to find resources

ROLE

• Research: Literary review, heuristic evaluation, content inventory, and card sort
• Design & Information Architecture: Wireframes, site map, visual design
• Web development: Hand-coded the full site with XHTML and CSS.