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Defining Home 8

METHODS AND TIMELINE

What we plan to do: Improve usability
  • Make web site easy to use
  • Achieved through user-centered design
  • Usability improves satisfaction - Satisfaction affects perceptions, loyalty
What we plan to do: Support key messages
  • Convey Dartmouth’s distinctive characteristics
  • Achieved by putting “Dartmouth Experience” online
  • Showing conveys more than telling - More credible, more persuasive
What we plan to do: Enhance offerings
  • Adopt new trends, add functionality
  • Focus on AIMS (Accessible, Interactive, Mobile, Social)
  • AIMS opens doors to Dartmouth - Knowledge grows with sharing and exchange
  • Possible enhancements
How we plan to do it: User-centered design
  • Design is making decisions
  • User-centered design, decisions are based on user research
  • User-centered design leads to improved usability
How we plan to do it: Strategic planning
  • Establish Web “master plan”
  • Coordinate campus efforts in support of master plan
  • Strategic design yields better results
When we plan to have it done
  • March 30: Strategic Plan
  • Early August: Launch

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Last updated: 05/31/06