💻 Website Redesign, UX Research, UX Design, UI Design, Design Leadership
🛠️ Figma, Miro, Sketching, Photo editing software, Google Suite
💼 Self-initiated pro-bono project for local NFP
🗓️ 5 months
🏷️ Volunteer, Redesign, Web Design, Mobile Design, UX Research
The Coquitlam River Community Garden, formerly known as the Colony Farm Community Garden, is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting sustainable and organic gardening while fostering a strong sense of community. The organization had been in need of a website redesign for three years. As a member and gardener at the time, I volunteered to take on the project.
The state of the website in January 2023, the time of starting this project, is linked here.
I led the website redesign project by conducting user research, identifying usability issues on the existing site, and creating high-fidelity mockups for the new design. I coordinated responsibilities within a team of three, which included myself, the garden president, and the webmaster. Additionally, I presented progress updates to both the community garden president and the administrative assistant.
I created the script for the website usability assessment to evaluate the initial usability of the CRCG website. The script focuses on user acceptance testing, including three key tasks:
The assessment was conducted via Google Forms and distributed to five garden members and one external test subject. Participants were diverse in age, tech proficiency, and English language skills. Including an external participant provided insights into the experience of prospective new members seeking to contact the admins or register for a plot. Full script can be viewed in the link below: