Explore Concordia
Celebrating the Accomplishments of a Leading Academic Institution
Client
Concordia University
Year
2017
Expertise
- Content Strategy
- Information Architecture
- UI Design
- UX Design
Explore Concordia is Concordia University’s online research application tool. A web app designed to promote the relationships between various professors’ research and allow them to show off their latest work — reinforcing Concordia’s position as a leading academic institution for research.
Why this project was a success
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Modernized the web app to showcase & reinforce the institution’s academic talent.
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Designed a responsive platform to foster connections between professors.
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Collaborated through an agile methodology to redefine the database’s functionality.
Moving from Static to Flexible
Concordia came to Plank with an outdated online research application platform that was primarily built with Adobe Flash to promote their research on large screens at events. In order to support the increased use of mobile and tablet browsers, Plank transitioned the entire site to an HTML base — providing Concordia with a more flexible web design to better showcase its academic talent.
Scaling for Size & User Experience
Plank worked closely with Concordia’s Research department using an agile methodology, where much of the app was open to interpretation with many cycles of stripping down unnecessary functions and refining what they wanted to keep from the original database.
Plank redesigned parts of the app to improve functionality and decrease loading time. We created an adaptive website that shares the same content and code, but is scaled logically for an improved user experience across all devices.
About the client
Explore Concordia is Concordia University’s online research application tool. A web app designed to promote the relationships between various professors' research and allow them to show off their latest work — reinforcing Concordia’s position as a leading academic institution for research.
