Website Redesign
BYU Arts Partnership’s Website
The BYU Arts Partnership (BAP) website contains great amount of information and resources for educators. BAP's team noticed that the resources were underutilized. Educators were having a hard time locating our resources within the website. This project was to redesign the website to be a better educational tool for educators and to be resource tool for their goals to integrate the arts.
Background Information
Organization: BYU Arts Partnership
Organization Goal: To help educators implement the arts in schools.
Client: Educators
Audience for the project: Art Educators and Non-Art Educators
Problem
BAP has a great number of resources that weren’t being used by educators because the website felt overwhelming and confusing to the users.
Solution
To restructure the organization of the content and the presentation of the information served.
Platform: Website
My Role
Project Manager, Instructional Designer, Graphic Designer, & Web Developer
Highlights
- Applied the design thinking process. I lead the project from the empathy phase and went through a few iterations after a few tests.
- Managed the project and organized and prioritized the tasks needed each week to move the project forward.
- Lead conversations during our website planning and review meetings.
- Utilize our team members’ skills and assigned them tasks that also helped them grow their skills as they helped with the website redesign.
Showcase
Technical Skills
- Graphic Design: Created some of the assets/icons. Designed all webpage layouts for the web team to use as a guideline. Created mockups of the pages in XD to test.
- Web Development: Giving description of the content type, taxonomies and content structures, and all information web developers need to develop the new website.
Tools Used
- Adobe Illustrator: Used to create the layouts and assets for the website.
- Adobe Photoshop: Used to do minor editing on images.
- Adobe XD: Used to build prototypes for testing and for the web developers.
- Microsoft Planner: Used to manage all tasks and progress of the website redesign.
- Brightspot: To write build the website before we changed to Drupal.
Extras
PowerPoint presentation explaining the theories behind our design choices.
