Deloitte Digital was given an interesting project with a very short timeline. Complete a website for the Schulich Deloitte Cognitive Analytics and Visualization Lab at York University. A building is under construction and students can enroll in this new analytics program, the result of a partnership between Deloitte and the Schulich School of Business. The Schulich team wished to present their new website at a conference only 6 weeks away from the project start.
From the first kick-off meeting with the client, to handing off work to the visual designers, I completed the site information architecture, collaborated on content strategy, created low-fidelity wireframes and an InVision prototype in 2 weeks.
Yup, 2 weeks.
Even though Sketch and InVision are the standard UX tools now, I created a site architecture diagram in OmniGraffle. This helped to organize content and the screen numbers were used in the titles of my Sketch artboards, which also helped to keep the screens in order in InVision. The copydeck also referred to the screen numbers, making it easier for the developers to find the appropriate content in the copydeck, for each screen.
I have recreated the InVision prototypes I created for the project, originally on the Deloitte InVision account and no longer accessible. The prototypes were used to present the design to the client, act as a reference for our copywriter while writing copy and spot gaps in the content provided. It mapped out the screens the visual designer needed to create and gave a head’s up to our developers. They would see our plan and what we were proposing, allowing them to give feedback, since the timeline could limit the complexity of the design being proposed.
[Desktop and mobile prototypes are currently offline, but get in touch and I can demo]
And check out the finished site: http://dschulichlab.ai
Schulich Deloitte Cognitive Analytics and Visualization Lab