As an architect and content designer, I’m passionate about designing features and content in a logical, intuitive, and complimentary way, especially from a high-level, integrated perspective.
As Information Architect, I was responsible for designing the navigation, layout, and flow of our user interfaces. Information architecture depends on correct content modeling and results in consistency across all user experiences.
Designing ideal interactions begins in the discovery phase of a project. I work with data science and engineering leads to leverage our company strengths in the final solution architecture.
Designed with the user in mind, Encore is Balfour's simple, yet powerful online yearbook management suite.
Most faculty advisers are overburdened by the responsibility of creating a yearbook. Encore is Balfour's solution to make this enormous task easy and efficient.
Investing significant capital into this 18-month project, Encore is the industry standard for desktop publishing software in the yearbook industry.
As an architect on this project, I worked on interactions, navigation, content, and user onboarding. My responsibilities also included communicating with engineering teams and managing UX workflow within an Agile development methodology.
One of the first user tests I designed was an A/B test of popular Android navigation patterns. Data from these tests informed the final navigation design of the app.
The first step toward reorganizing existing web content is to determine a typical mental model for this kind of information. Based on the results of this cardsorting study, the information architecture of our website was redesigned to match the users’ navigation expectations.
The study I conducted (known as an “open cardsorting study”) produced data helpful for reorganizing our existing content into more intuitive and accessible categories.
Cardsorting is an efficient way to determine mental models, information architecture, workflows, and navigation paths.
