Don Rowing Club

Research / UX & UI Design / Web Design / Information Architecture
Project Overview

The website of the Don Rowing Club needs to be modernized to provide a better web experience to the current community members and to show the potential audience that it is working to stay on top of trends. This project was created to redesign the information architecture and layout to improve the overall web accessibility, aesthetics, and navigation.

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  • Client

    Don Rowing Club

  • Role

    User Research, Prototyping, Project Management

  • Platform

    Website

Problem

The current website is not user-friendly and inaccessible, which is hard for users to navigate for good information.

Web Design Process

Identifying the purpose and the goal that the website needs to meet

  • Scope
  • Budget
  • Timeline

Conducting market research and user research

  • Competitor Analysis
  • Survey
  • Interview

Planning how to interrelate the content and the feature

  • Big Ideas
  • Information Architecture
  • Sitemap & Wireframe

Using essential tools to work on the visual brand

  • Mockup
  • UI Design System
  • Style Guide
  • Prototypes

Developing the site via WebFlow.

  • Content Integration
  • Interactive Elements
  • Responsive Site

Project Overview

Background

Don Rowing Club is a not-for-profit organization that operates out of the boathouse near the Credit River base in Mississauga. It is committed to leading in the growth and excellence of rowers at all levels of sport and promoting healthy living and longevity within the community.

Justifications

Don Rowing Club is now facing many challenges, which are as follows:

  • The current website is not user-friendly and inaccessible, which is hard for users to navigate for good information
  • The club members find difficulty in getting the social media conversions they want
  • The mobility of technicist results in an inconsistent style for website updates

The impact of which is to discourage the club from attracting new members to the rowing sports or being on the water. Therefore, it is necessary to redesign the sites’ information architecture and layout to become more accessible and user-friendly.

Project Goal & Objectives

Goal

Modernize the Club’s website information to become more accessible, reliable, and user-friendly within 12 weeks

Objectives / Deliverables
  • Get inspiration by analyzing key competitors
  • Conduct user research for the current website
  • Identify, study and understand the end-user
  • Propose solutions and envision the product
  • Redesign the site information architecture
  • Create a suite of design templates for use
  • Create a set of design guidelines

Research Analysis

Market Research

Analyze competitors effectively, see where they’re winning and losing, and adapt to market shifts when they happen.

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User Research

Discover the existing problems and users' needs through surveys and interviews.

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Concept & Ideation

Big Ideas

4 schemes with 18 ideas

Sitemap
  • Remove duplicate labels
  • Balance depth and width
  • Organize the labels in task-oriented and audience-specific schemes

Design

Mid-fidelity Prototype
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Style Guides

Including typography scheme and color palette, buttons, and responsive layouts.

High-fidelity Prototype
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Site Development

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Lesson Learned

The design method is dictated in the classroom. However, the result is more important than how I got there in the actual information sector.  Adaptively picking the steps that suit the current project is necessary.

Always keep the script and slides simple, story-driven, and high-level summarized in a presentation so that the client can pay attention to the presenter and not be distracted.

Create an overall situation and integrated all pieces of the project into a whole. Took into account the interaction with superiors and subordinates as well as developed better products effectively.