The Medicine Department of Columbia University needed to replace their outdated, expensive to handle website with online video conferences they currently use, along with an easy way to add two types of content: News and Events.
With the current way, their infrastructure has multiple tools that don't connect with one another. As a result, the Medicine department employees spend a prolonged amount of time in order to create online events page.
FYI - Because of employer-confidentiality reasons, this mockup website was created to represent the original one. Because of that, some categories are not linked to their intended pages.
My Involvement
After kickoff meeting with my stakeholders to understand their needs and how success would look like, I strategized a way to combine two different and outdated websites that serve the same users into an all-inclusive one, then researched for the right tools and technologies based on the available budget. Then I built the website and added a Custom Management System (CMS) to expedite the process of the creation of a video conference event. I created two CMS modules: the Events and the News. Employees now can quickly add new content pages and also swiftly edit them.
The Result
* Users are now able to log in to one website to read the content as well as register for events. * Employees are able to conveniently modify existing events and quickly create new ones. * The Medicine department retains resources and only pays minor annual service fees.