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Webmasters’ Guild
User-Centered Web Redesign: Project Overview
Presented by:Susan Powell and Jen StrandNYS Department of Taxation and Finance
www.tax.ny.gov
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Webmasters’ Guild
What we’ll cover
Project context
What we did, how we did it & our time frame
Key success factors & challenges
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Webmasters’ Guild
• Strong web governance structure & web blueprint
• Very large site: 3k pages, 20k PDF’s, 50+ online services
• Decentralized content management structure
• Mature CMS implementation (Interwoven) & templatized web pages
• Data: web statistics (Web Trends), survey data, call center data, etc.
• Skill sets: usability, writing for the web, graphic design, HTML, scripting
Project context
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Webmasters’ Guild
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Webmasters’ Guild
Usability consulting firm expert review
• evaluate site’s strengths & weaknesses
• focus: support business objectives and provide an effective UI
• create formative page design including navigation, content
• provide long-term, strategic recommendations
Recommendations
• create new site structure & supporting navigation• write content for the web• design customer-focused, task-based site pages• integrate site task elements within pages
Review time frame: Two months
What we did, how we did it & time frame
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Webmasters’ Guild
Phase 1 (six months)
• interviewed customers & stakeholders
• analyzed web statistics
• benchmarked similar sites
• developed site structure & recommended task-based content
• recommended UI prototype & navigation structure
What we did, how we did it & time frame
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Webmasters’ Guild
What we did, how we did it & time frame
Phase 2 (nine months)
• built prototype & wrote new content
• conducted online card sort usability test
• contracted for usability testing with consulting firm
• revised design based on test results
• contracted for technical assistance to create/automate new structure
• tested new site
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Webmasters’ Guild
New site design•Persistent (secondary) navigation bar: users can ‘bin’ themselves by audience or select Get Help
• More integrated, task-based content
• Online services log in/create account featured on home page
• Audience pages include ‘ads’ and news
• Left navigation bar expands/contracts
• Underlying folder structure changed for some content, changing URLs
What we did, how we did it & time frame
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Webmasters’ Guild
• User-centered design process based on objective user behavior data
• Strong executive support
• Web governance structure
• Consultant expertise
• Communication
• Post-launch analytics & focus on continuous improvement
Key success factors
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• Writing for the web capacity
• Shifting content format from PDFs to HTML pages
• Lack of usability test facilities and ability to compensate testers
• Lack of customer satisfaction survey (aside from web survey)
• Integrating static content with online services
• Increasing multilingual web content
• Integrating Office of Real Property Tax Services site
Challenges: project & ongoing