DESIGNING FOR THE ELDERLY WITH ACCESSIBILITY IN MIND

  • Jovita Večkytė

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

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. 
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