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About The Project
About The Project
With the 100 year anniversary of NBME approaching in 2015, the executive board desired a way to share the rich history of the Board with the public. They wished to include both milestone events and the vast treasure trove of historical documents. This project was seen as both a "give back" to the community and a public relations benefit.
My role on the project:
I was ultimately responsible for the final delivery of the site as the project leader. This included defining milestones, definition, setup and execution of project UX tasks, and final approval for the builds.
The Challenge
The Challenge
The site was to serve multiple functions, including two which were very much competing: creating an engaging user experience and making available thousands of (mostly text based) documents, the majority of which pre-dated the digital age.
UX Activities And Flow
UX Activities And Flow
Concept Brainstorming
Concept Brainstorming
The high visibility aspect of this project meant sign-off was needed at the executive board and highest leadership level. For that reason, the project kickoff started with an all day brainstorming session, where project goals were discussed and basic needs, business requirements and great ideas were solicited from key stakeholders.
The key features that emerged were:
- A timeline
- Separation of the People, Event, and Publication based events
- Full access to the archive of thousands of documents
- A content management system which was easy to use
This project also required the development of a Content Management System (CMS) as a separate but related project.
Wireframing and Testing
Wireframing and Testing
Since the goal of the brainstorming session was not to converge on one single idea, but to gather a diverging list of requirements and ideas, we were able to cherry-pick from the grouped ideas that worked together and would satisfy stakeholders.
- Combining the timeline with the ability to retrieve the high number of documents was the greatest challenge. The solution was to combine the two, and create a timeline based filmstrip which would show the major milestones over the years for each of the 100 years.
- In order to break up the timeline into manageable chunks, we divided it into three different "eras", each with its own style and color palette.
- We developed a "card" system, where any type of display event would be displayed on a template formatted card containing required and optional fields.
The Final Design
The Final Design
The final site allowed users to navigate through an attractive, interactive website which provided easy access to thousands of documents from NBME's rich history.
Site Address: http://nbme100.org/#home
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