One year after the project kickoff the new Undergraduate Admissions Web site launches. Of course, we had a little fun the in process. I outlined a few key changes at the bottom of this post but wanted to go through some important changes in detail.
The old site lacked the “experience” factor. Not the hand-holding through [...]

GoooOOo Girl! Go go GO GIRL!! So you can probably tell we’re really excited to share this latest addition with you. GO-GIRL which stands for Gaining Options-Girls Investigating Real Life, is an engaging program for middle school girls to help increase their confidence in their academic endeavors. With such energetic target audience, we couldn’t help [...]

The English Language Institute (ELI) is just a small part of the Office of International Programs. We are in the process of realigning and redesigning all sites within the office and ELI was the most ambitious to launch.
Some of the goals for the new ELI site

Unifying the navigation
Bringing the site into the central identity
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The University Pharmacy is a tenant of The Towers Residential Suites. They are a full pharmacy and open to the public. They came to us because their web presence was lacking, it was hard to find what they offered, promotions and basic information.
We took the needs of the pharmacy and its users and designed the [...]

Now that classes are in full steam the new Welcome Back Week Web site is up. Unfortunately I don’t have a screen shot of last year’s site with events or navigation but the main change is the design of the site.
The new site has the week spelled out prominently and large buttons to select each [...]

Part of the Division of Research the Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (IEHS) has in the past hosted its own site, it was time to bring them into the overall Division of Research look and feel.
The navigation changed slightly to better focus on the users needs and the white background with black text makes the [...]

The Executive & Professional Development (EPD) is part of the Educational Outreach redesign project. The EPD is a unique part of the university that offer a tailored business training.
Proven, no-nonsense problem-solving strategies to assess and satisfy the specific organizational needs of its clients.  EPD is committed to providing learning programs that are targeted, relevant, fully [...]

Wanting to improve accessibility and promote transparent communication with the student body, the student council sought us out to create a site that would be easy to navigate, clean, and at the same time fun.
The homepage features a promotional section highlighting activities being promoted by the council, the Top Topics section showing new information of [...]

The Educational Outreach Web sites consist of promoting classes and services we offer outside of main campus (downtown Detroit). The sites went through a name chance and an identity overhaul. The site is broken down into counties and extension centers. In total you can take Wayne State University classes in 4 counties at currently 7 [...]

Along side the Office of Development and Alumni Affairs Web site we also launched the newest giving campaign, Aim Higher for Students. The idea is simple, show how much a gift can help a student’s life. Even the smallest gift can make a big difference. Students who might have otherwise had to drop out or [...]