OmniUpdate, a longtime partner in higher education website development and vendor for OUCampus content management, came to Kanner Kreative looking for a more user-friendly, intuitively-architected solution for their support website. Through various methods of gathering user feedback and working with OmniUpdate support staff, the solution resulted in a more intuitive navigation structure and website architecture. The internal development team at OmniUpdate used Twitter Bootstrap to develop the site.
Feedback has both OmniUpdate support staff as well as clients of OUCampus happy with its usability, navigability and presentation. Kudos and recognition for Kanner Kreative’s efforts were shared at the 2013 OmniUpdate User Conference.
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A college in Boulder, Colorado, Naropa was looking for a cleaner, more deliberate approach to their website. Consulting through Noel-Levitz, Ellen worked with the internal team to develop an information architecture and inventoried content to develop a page structure to support this user experience goal. Through one-on-one user interviews, stakeholder interviews, reviewing analytics and other methods of user research, wireframes and the information architecture were delivered to support the content presentation needs of the institution.

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For Oklahoma City Community College, in consulting with Noel-Levitz, Ellen gathered elements from client-conducted user research, surveys and focus groups to develop wireframes and the information architecture that appears on the site. Working with a designer, developer, and those with varying responsibilities on the client’s side, developed a successful presentation that works for a variety of audiences as well as prospective students.
Read MoreA year long project taking the college’s website from a 1990s constricted table-based version to a complete website graphical redesign and transfer to the OmniUpdate CMS. This project involved gathering user feedback on the previous site and developing an information architecture and graphic design elements. CSS, HTML, content development, project management and SEO was handled by the client.
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Re-architecture, redesign, and rebuild from top to bottom of the Information Technology website at Dartmouth College.
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