Web page Redesign – West Seattle Substantial College

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Seattle Public Universities Web page Redesign

Seattle Community Universities (SPS) is engaged in a venture to make improvements to the person encounter of our sites. The redesigned district and faculty websites will go live early August!

The job, which began in 2019, is centered all over the person practical experience of our students and families. Thank you to the extra than 4,000 college students, staff, and people who furnished feedback and helped guidebook this redesign!

New Web-site Functions

Prioritized essential methods for learners and families
Cell-pleasant design
Improved navigation
Expanded multilingual translation services
New shades and visible layout influenced by the Pacific Northwest
Artwork from nearby Northwest Coast Indigenous Artist Andrea Wilbur-Sigo, Squaxin/Skokomish

Task Phases

Throughout the phases of the project, there have been and will proceed to be possibilities to share your voice and priorities.

The new design is based on person feed-back with data gathered as a result of interviews with college students, family members, community associates, and employees, surveys, usability tests, and internet site analytics. We are prioritizing engagement with pupils and households furthest from academic justice.

We are now in stage 4 of our challenge.

Section 1 November – December: Interviews and aim groups with pupils and families furthest from academic justice, survey of all SPS web page users, and internet analytics critique.

Stage 2 January – March: Navigation scientific tests to learn reasonable navigation framework and webpage grouping (information and facts architecture).

Phase 3 March – April: Structure and growth of seem and experience with usability studies to make sure the navigation, groups, and structure meet up with the requires of our people, students, team, companions and broader local community.

Stage 4 April – August: Content migration and new web page goes live! New web sites will go are living in August.

About this Job

The SPS web sites are the most important interaction resource for staff members and households and acts as the digital hub for district and university academic assets and details. Serving more than 100 educational institutions and close to 53,000 students, SPS websites need to have to work for learners, present and future people, workers, and community customers.

The undertaking plans center user practical experience, and incorporate: raise accessibility and local community feed-back in the remaining design, boost navigation and search performance to help visitors uncover means, strengthen obtain with a mobile-first style and design, construct a consumer-friendly process for information publishers, and offer a extra steady world-wide-web hosting environment – making certain reliability of services and that our websites are ‘always on.’

What is involved?

This venture incorporates the district and college web sites.

It will not change resources this kind of as The Supply, Schoology, or Clever the student portal.

Why are we earning this improve?

Providing reliable and predictable updates has been a problem with the current site host and content administration method (CMS).

The net products and services group is fired up that the new method will offer ease of use for the district’s 500 editors who preserve the individual university web sites, the SPS team web-site, and the community district web page.

Placing College students and Households Initial

The guiding dilemma of the redesign is “How do we style and design a net practical experience that facilities the objectives, desires, and worries of college students and family members who are furthest from educational justice?”

By unapologetically centering the practical experience and engagement with college students and family members of Shade, the undertaking specifically supports the goals of our strategic prepare Seattle Excellence.

In November and December, our community participated in an all-simply call website survey that was translated into six languages. Just about 4,000 full men and women participated.

The team also executed a collection of concentration groups with middle and superior faculty students, African American households, Indigenous people, and family members supported by Amharic, Cantonese, Somali, Spanish, and Vietnamese interpreters. As nicely as interviews with personnel and group-dependent corporations who aid family members furthest from instructional justice.

All through the procedure, the website solutions team reengaged with these group associates to share how their responses was included in the structure and make absolutely sure the layout responsive to families’ demands through user screening.

The net team will loop again with these similar households in Drop 2021 and share another all-phone site satisfaction and responses survey to seem for prospects for advancement.

Important Redesign Priorities Primarily based on Person Analysis

Navigation: increase navigation to make information less difficult to uncover.
Content material and Structure: style and design requirements to emphasize crucial sources for students and people.
Visuals and Icons: use extra imagery and video to assistance visitors find details.
Language Guidance: Lack of translation or exact translation of key content material made confusion amongst end users and place them in a situation exactly where they truly feel unsupported and at a downside.
Do not Transform Anything: Some methods these as the “Select a School” and place of the Student Spouse and children Portal link do the job effectively.