Project Management: Website Redesign

At a national higher-ed convention in 2021, The University of Alabama’s (UAH) director and assistant director of housing were approached by a third-party content developer who pitched their product: interactive 360-degree tours of featured rooms with detailed information about the rooms’ dimensions and amenities.  Impressed by what they saw, the assistant director approached our office first to see if we could help make these important features a reality for their site.

I was given leadership of the project and led the housing team through the full design process: brainstorming, wireframing, prototyping, content creation, construction, publication, and planning for ongoing maintenance of a new website.  I enlisted the help of our team’s web programmer to develop the back-end architecture necessary to make the interactive elements work.

We purchased a Theta 360-degree camera, captured footage of 14 room types, drew high-resolution graphic floor plans for each room type, and designed and built an interactive, modal interface that would give users an immersive, fully controllable experience of each of UAH’s dorm room types without ever having to visit campus.

To make users’ browsing experience easy, the we used the Bootstrap card system clone and dynamic search filter that we had created to solve another design problem months earlier.  This allowed users the ability to shop for housing based on their needs and their budgets.  You can visit the redesigned site here: