Site 1   Norwich University — Wise Campus Center

Visit Wise Campus Center

role
  • project manager
  • architecture
  • navigation
  • developer
  • visual design
  • interaction design
summary
Introduce visitors to Norwich’s new, $25-million Wise Campus Center. Norwich University is the country’s oldest private military college and the majority of resident undergraduate students are members of the Corps of Cadets, a four-year military lifestyle. But “traditional” students make up an equally important minority. To encourage both groups to interact and take advantage of exposure to different perspectives, and to promote a greater feeling of unity, Norwich created a common social and dining hub — the WCC.
audience
The primary audiences are prospective students and their parents as well as folks interested in Norwich or planning a visit, such as alumni and friends.
features
  • Interactive floorplans for each of the building’s three floors that show visitors what’s where.
  • Brief, casual descriptions of spaces in the WCC and paths to more detailed information.

Site 2   Norwich University — Sullivan Museum

Visit Sullivan Museum

role
  • architecture
  • navigation
  • visual design
  • developer
summary
The Sullivan Museum & History Center was originally created to chronicle construction of this new asset to the Norwich campus and community. After the 2007 grand opening, we overhauled the site. With nearly two hundred years of items of historical interest, we chose to highlight both items in the museum’s collection and the building’s architecture. Much of the site restructuring involved jettisoning sections specific to the construction phase. A blog originally created to record phases of construction was overhauled and dedicated to casual observances of museum staff and stories about current and coming exhibits. We display headlines from that blog in an Ajax widget on the site»s homepage.
audience
Prospective visitors to campus and the museum are the primary audience.
features
  • Ajax widget on the site’s homepage that displays headlines which serve as links to full articles on a companion blog.

Site 3   University of Denver — Graduate Studies

This site had undergone a redesign.
View screenshot.

role
  • site and content strategy
  • architecture
  • navigation
  • developer
  • interaction design
summary
Graduate Studies is a central administrative resource for all of the university’s graduate programs, but many graduate schools choose to manage their own admissions and administrative functions. This site was designed to give visitors a cohesive online experience so prospective and current graduate students can access all program information regardless of where this content is actually housed.
audience
Prospective and current graduate students are the primary audiences. Secondary audiences include current undergraduate students and prospective transfer students.
features
  • Keyboard and screen-reader accessible, list-based dynamic menus created with CSS & javascript that degrade gracefully regardless of what device visitors use to access the site.
  • A CSS & javascript-based “show/hide” technique that reduces page depth, limiting vertical scrolling.