Improving the website for families in need

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Christmas Without Cancer’s current website lacks in delivering its contents. This project is to enhance the digital presence and fulfill the goals and needs of the users and organization by redesigning the entire website.

The objective is to create an easy to navigate, user-friendly website for our target audience.

“How did we redesign the Christmas Without Cancer website to create a more engaging and user-friendly experience for families in need?"

"What specific challenges did we encounter, and how did we overcome them to achieve our goals?”

Timeline            My Role             Collaborators          Tools Used

April 2022 - June 2022
Heuristics Evaluation
Interviews
Card Sort
Wireframes
Prototyping
1 Founder
1 Mentor
4 UX Designers and Researchers
             Figma
             Mural
             OptimalSort
             Wordpress
The website went live on June 17th 2022. Increased website engagement by 30%. Check out the website at: https://christmaswithoutcancer.org

THE PROBLEM

The major issue is that website don't maintain the hierarchy of information. The complexity of this problem affects the visitors of the website (families seeking help, volunteers, donors) to decipher and navigate through the information provided and reach the desired outcomes.

DESIGN PROCESS

PROJECT GOALS

PRIMARY TARGET USERS

CONTENT INVENTORY

Content Inventory was conducted to understand and locate the available content on CWC website and to know the navigation flow of the existing website.

CARD SORT

To tackle the bulky navbar situation, to understand how the users envision the website structure, we conducted Card Sort 1 was open in nature among ourselves (In a team) wherein we could create the categories for each content list.

Tool Used: Mural

CLOSED CARD SORT

Next we did a closed card sort by recruiting participants from CWC’s community facebook page. A closed card sort is wherein we asked participants to move the cards into categories created by us.

Tool Used: Optimal Sort

CARD SORT RESULTS

A good result is when at least 75% of the participants have placed a card under a particular category.

SITE MAP

On the basis of card sort results, I developed a new and improved sitemap with 6 categories at the top nav bar.

WIREFRAMES

Based on the sitemap that I created, I designed and critiqued along with my team 5 wireframes for the following screens: ‘The Home Page’, ‘Footer’, ‘Events Page’, ‘News Page’, ‘About Us’.

MID-FI PROTOTYPES

I designed the website's footer and collaborated with the team to design navbar and other sections of the website.

TESTING WITH THE PARTICIPANTS

Due to time constraints, this project has to be completed within 10 weeks. We came up with a plan to go for First Click testing and A/B testing altogether. A/B testing is to compare the current website with the proposed one.

MONITORED TESTING
TARGET AUDIENCE:  CWC’s community members from the client and few from our personal connections who are the potential users
UNMONITORED TESTING
TARGET AUDIENCE:  CWC’s community members from the Facebook group
HI-FI PROTOTYPES

From the Monitored and Unmonitored testing results, we come up with these changes below.

MAIN FEATURES

VISUAL DESIGN

Based on 3 rounds of design iterations, I collaborated with the team to create detailed visual designs. I used design systems and gestalt design principles to guide my designs.

RETROSPECTIVE

FUTURE PLANS FOR THE WEBSITE
WHAT I LEARNED
There will always be road-bumps. And I really felt and learned as a team how to adapt to the different situations and overcome the difficulties .