The Science Library is located in Athens, GA on the south campus of the University of Georgia, and it houses materials related to natural, physical, and life sciences as well as medical and technical subjects.
Create a digital exhibit based off of information collected and researched by the Science Library, and build a UI interface that would be accessible and easy to navigate for the intended audience which mainly included UGA students.
While there were no preferences as to what software or tool needed to be used to complete the project, the exhibit would be need to be published on the Science Library's website.
I didn't have any experience executing a digital exhibit design that actually functioned, so there was a lot of research and self-teaching that had to happen to complete the project.
With the exhibit design, the Science Library wanted to maintain as much of their researched information as possible, so figuring out how to cater to that while also creating hierarchy of information for the users that won't spend as much time reading everything.
+ Researched different methods to approach the digital exhibit
+ Created high-fidelity wireframes and UI interface
+ User-tested the functionality and accessibility of the wireframes and exhibit
+ Built out a fully functioning version of digital exhibit
"By keeping the UI format similar to a website, students would immediately understand how to interact with this exhibit."
A big goal of this project was to create an interface that was easy to navigate. Since the main audience for this project was college students, I thought a good way to do that would be through taking advantage of familiar web layouts.
By keeping the UI format similar to a website, students would immediately understand how to interact with this exhibit. How to access the menu, go backward, go forward, etc. The UI testing of these wireframe proved successful, and the exhibit was improved and executed based off of those tests.
The exhibit was executed and published through Adobe's Publish Online which also provides an option to embed the code into the Science Library's website.