This is a project I worked on within a design Cohort team at Include, a student organisation at UC Davis. Our objective was to re-design the interface of the website belonging to the student organisation “Space and Satellite Systems” (SSS) to maximise their outreach to interested students and sponsors.
Client: Space and Satellite Systems (SSS) is a fully undergraduate led club at UC Davis that provides students with hands-on experience engineering real space technologies. They are an inclusive environment where students can make meaningful contributions to projects and learn highly relevant industry skills.
"How Might We" Statement: How might we design the SSS website to be more welcoming for both students and sponsors while improving access to the most important information?
We compared similar websites with SSS' goal and highlighted and discovered features that were effective and ineffective.
We created four user personas to guide our design process and help us understand the primary users of the club’s website.
Based on the User Personas, we created User Flows to help us understand what users needed from the site and how they currently get there.
I sketched the interface for the "Join Us" and "Sponsor Us" page.
The "Join Us" page establishes a welcoming and inviting environment to appeal to interested students. The page will include a community photo, contact information, a Google calendar, and employers that hired alumni.
The "Sponsor Us" page encourages potential sponsors to endorse their organization. The page will include a link to their sponsor packet, a description explaining how sponsorship goes towards supporting students in the orgamization, and a list of sponsors who have endorsed the club.
Following my sketches, I designed monochrome wireframes with placeholder text in Figma.
We created a design system that aligned with SSS's request for a professional design that embodies the aesthetic of space.
Upon recieving feedback on my monochrome wireframes, I established more consistency towards text alignment and shapes and added text boxes to highlight significant information.
We recieved feedback from SSS and incorporated it into our high fidelity, final designs. They wanted to see more white space and a simple format with iconography.