After experiencing (and struggling) with the wordpress.org dashboard, I have re-designed several key areas to improve the user experience. My decisions were prompted by my user experience and my attraction to minimalistic, self-explanatory design solutions. As a new user, I the first thing I noticed was that I had a difficult time finding certain information. I noted various areas of improvement for user interaction with creating posts, projects, and pages. Other enhancements such as an interactive statistics page elevates WordPress to the next level thus enabling it to stand out from competitors. Essentially, I took the best of Wordpress and made it better by introducing color coding, more icons, less decision-making factors, cleaning up the layout, eliminating the background color, and restructuring and re-organizing information.
Watch the below video to see a recorded walkthrough or scroll down to interact with the prototype yourself.
To interact, scan the above QR code or go to this URL: https://xd.adobe.com/view/6caa21c7-e756-41cd-63c2-2ef0e1c31c23-1a9b/?fullscreen
The Process:
I decided what interactive features I wanted, made a list, and began sketching. I continually switched back and forth between the actual Wordpress site and Adobe XD to figure out which categories and text I wanted to keep, what I wanted to edit, and what I wanted to eliminate entirely. When it came time to link the files, I made a check list so I wouldn’t lose my place when starting and stopping. In the design process, I had separated my artboards into categories like “menu”, “statistics”, etc. and clearly labeled all artboards so it would be easier to link the buttons down the road.
I decided what interactive features I wanted, made a list, and began sketching. I continually switched back and forth between the actual Wordpress site and Adobe XD to figure out which categories and text I wanted to keep, what I wanted to edit, and what I wanted to eliminate entirely. When it came time to link the files, I made a check list so I wouldn’t lose my place when starting and stopping. In the design process, I had separated my artboards into categories like “menu”, “statistics”, etc. and clearly labeled all artboards so it would be easier to link the buttons down the road.
Sketching the layout for various pages.
After everything had been linked.
**Please note that this project was for a Graphic Design senior-level college class at Chapman University. There is NO affiliation with Wordpress. Contact: https://elissatitle.myportfolio.com/
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