DESIGNING FOR THE ELDERLY WITH ACCESSIBILITY IN MIND

  • Jovita Večkytė

WEBSITE RE-DESIGN | ADVANTAGES OF AGE​ | 4-WEEK SPRINT

DESIGNING FOR THE ELDERLY WITH ACCESSIBILITY IN MIND by Jovita Večkytė
OVERVIEW: For weeks 9 and 10 of the course at General Assembly, we were grouped into teams and given a brief with a goal to create a new website and find opportunities to improve the business. After successful design sprint the client offered us to work further. In a group of four we had an opportunity to finish the redesign of both client's websites and build responsive web design guidelines for multiple devices. 

TEAM:   Eu-Hyung Han, Georgia Mantzana, Ivan Rubio Santa and me.
MY ROLE: There were no pre-defined roles in this project, however, some of my responsibilities included:    Conduct competitive & user research, usability testing.      Synthesise findings with the team through affinity mapping.    Facilitate design studio.    Collaboratively with a team create lo-fi, mid-fi and hi-fi prototypes.    Conduct extra research based on accessibility.     Improve design guidelines based on accessibility research.     Implement usability testing and research findings to hi-fi prototype.        Present results to the client.   Redesign AoA lifestyle website within new style guides.   Build responsive web design for multiple devices. 
DESIGNING FOR THE ELDERLY WITH ACCESSIBILITY IN MIND by Jovita Večkytė
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DESIGNING FOR THE ELDERLY WITH ACCESSIBILITY IN MIND by Jovita Večkytė
DESIGNING FOR THE ELDERLY WITH ACCESSIBILITY IN MIND by Jovita Večkytė
DESIGNING FOR THE ELDERLY WITH ACCESSIBILITY IN MIND by Jovita Večkytė
DESIGNING FOR THE ELDERLY WITH ACCESSIBILITY IN MIND by Jovita Večkytė