Website Redesign: University Housing

At a national higher-ed convention in 2021, The University of Alabama in Huntsville’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, and one that UAH’s website did not have.  Impressed by the pitch, but restricted by budget, the assistant director approached our office for help.

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.  Working in tandem with my team’s web developer and coordinating closely with the client, we proposed an entire overhaul of their site that revolved around 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.  Using a Theta 360-degree camera, we captured footage of 14 room types, drew high-resolution graphic floor plans for each room type, and designed and built a pop-up modal interface that features immersive room tours.  You can visit the redesigned site here: