Thanks for attending Meet the Personas Open House!

Thanks to those of you who attended our Meet the Personas Open House this week! It was great getting a chance to share these with our broader campus community. What are our User Personas? Fifteen (15) fictional characters that have been created to help us better understand the experience of Hope College’s various audiences. Learn …

Meet the User Personas Open House

Please join us for our upcoming “Meet the User Personas Open House”. Wednesday, January 29 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Martha Miller 1st Floor Rotunda refreshments will be served! Fifteen (15) fictional characters have been created to help us better understand the experience of Hope College’s various audiences. We would like to introduce these personas to …

Playing in the sandbox

As you’ll recall, we’ve previously selected OmniUpdate’s OU Campus as our new Content Management System (CMS) for the new hope.edu to replace Dreamweaver/Drupal. Although we’re still a ways away from implementing our new CMS, we’ve been given the keys to a “sandbox” or test version of a website running OU. It’s fun to actually test …

Page Strategies

Over the past few weeks, our partner Mighty has been working on putting together page strategy documents. These documents consist of two major parts: a strategic foundation and content recommendations. The strategic foundation asks and concisely answers some important questions about why the page exists: What is the objective of the page and what are we …

Site map and selecting pages for strategy & design

Along with Mighty, we’ve been working hard to craft a new site-map for all of hope.edu. A site-map is a list of all of the pages in a website, typically organized in hierarchical fashion. This is an important step, as it will help us better understand how all of our content will be structured and relate …

Site Map and Style Tiles

We are beginning to work through a first draft of a site map for the new Hope website. A site map will serve as a plan for the content organization for each department’s information and communication via the web – and our site as a whole. We’re asking a handful of faculty members to meet with …

Content & Design Strategy phase

Phase one of Research & Identification is nearing completion, and we are very excited to be moving forward into the Content & Design Strategy phase. During this phase, Mighty will be proposing a new site map and information architecture for the site, and we will begin exploring a few different design directions through style tiles. Style …

User Personas and Scenarios

Who are our website users and what do they want to do? Those are the questions we are attempting to answer with the help of our web partner, Mighty. This week we got the first look at our User Personas and Scenarios. These are fictional “people” who have been created based on real-life audiences and …

Stakeholder Interviews Summary

This week, our web design partner, Mighty, presented their findings and summary of the stakeholder interviews that were conducted. This will be helpful in our planning moving forward. There were some major themes that came out of these discussions which include ideas/thoughts related to KnowHope, campus calendar & events, tickets, registration & advising, department pages, …

Web design focus groups & open forums a success!

Thank you to the many faculty, staff, students, and others who shared your insight and helped us to make our website design focus groups and open forums a success! We are so grateful for your participation with our web design partner, Mighty. In total, 20 focus groups and 3 open forums were conducted with over 150 …