UF Health

UF Health News


Context

UX Designer · 2015

Services: UX research · Pattern research · IA · Visual design · WordPress development

Typefaces: Work Sans, Libre Baskerville

Status: Live — ufhealthnews.org

UF Health News — podcast site overview


Problem

After moving the majority of content over to ufhealth.org, the UF Health News site was home to two remaining radio shows. The site hadn't been worked on for several years. The content felt out-of-date and the site felt abandoned. Producers didn't want to share the site with potential affiliates because of the outdated look and confusing information architecture.

UF Health News — old siteUF Health News — old site detail

Process

Research & information architecture

This project started with a lot of research into other podcast and radio show sites, as well as relevant academic healthcare content. I explored audio player types, subscription avenues and show distribution networks. I also took an in-depth look at the current site's architecture and performed an inventory of all outbound links and content.

UF Health News — IA diagram

We met with the key stakeholders for the shows, where we identified pain points and key areas of improvement. We asked each stakeholder to choose a primary and secondary action they wanted users to complete when visiting the site.

Process

Design explorations

Designs were presented in a follow-up session and a direction was chosen to move forward with. Final approval was obtained after a few revisions, and the development of the WordPress theme began.

UF Health News — design exploration 1
UF Health News — design exploration 2
UF Health News — design exploration 3
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UF Health News — design exploration 5

Results

A refreshed design and a revamped site architecture addressed the production team's main concerns and helped to better facilitate return visits, content exploration, affiliate interest, user interaction and helped to establish the site as a resource with reliable and trusted content.

Final design — home
Final design — podcast list
Final design — podcast list live
Final design — episode detail (native player)
Final design — episode detail (SoundCloud)
Final design — episode detail live
Final design — static page