Select a government website and research the UI pain points for user's navigation to improve accessibility for both desktop and mobile experiences and create prototypes.
After choosing the United States Botanical Gardens as our government site we conducted a series of tests navigating through the site's main navigation and the user's experience of participating in the Botanic Gardens virtual Yoga Class (since COVID restrictions had the most impact on the garden events.) This resulted in a high-fidelity prototype with an updated brand design and more intuitive navigation.
Redlining Website Design
Conducting User Test
Card Sorting Test
Brand Design
UX UI Design
UX UI Designer
Kate Lintermann
Yusra Iqbal
(This was the website in 2020, it has been updated since) To start, we evaluated the botanical garden's current site by conducting a WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) test, which failed. We also created redline annotations for all pages in the current experience involved in our chosen user flow. To learn more about the USBG's main navigation we conducted a series of card sorting tests, combining the results into one final sitemap.
We made small but impactful edits to the style guide by changing the green tones to pass the Accessibility Guidelines and bringing the logo font into the experience. We also added some seasonal secondary colors.
