Icicle Creek Center for the Arts

Usability research, design and strategy for a new Wordpress website.

Icicle Creek Center for the Arts is a non-profit center for arts education located in an lush green Pacific Northwest setting. Their focus on performing arts instruction along with an ability to produce photo and video assets in-house sparked a drive to fully replace a previous text-heavy website.

 
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My Role

  • Usability research

  • UX strategy and planning

  • UX design

Document Samples

  • Client usability workshop & education

  • Systems integration planning

Year

2017 & 2019

 
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The Challenge

Icicle Creek Center for the Arts offers a wide array of classes, workshops, and retreats as well as public performances, accommodations, and facility rentals. I developed and ran a one-day intensive usability workshop with staff and stakeholders that identified and prioritized audiences. Educating the client on a user-centered design and engaging them as active participants resulted in user personas, user flows, IA and wireframes that resonated internally and aligned client, dev and design teams around common goals.

Wordpress was chosen by the client due to past experience with ease of maintenance. Custom theme creation and a custom plugin were created to meet the unique needs of the client, including the integration of a 3rd party ticket sales platform.

 

Credits: Pyramid Communications, Icicle Creek Center for the Arts


 

More…

I’ve had the privilege to have produced strategy, UX and planning for many great clients who’s work positively impacts our world. Below is a small sampling.

 

Arts & Culture

Explore Washington Park

Icicle Creek Center for the Arts

Seattle Art Museum

Seattle Theatre Group

Education

Bezos Foundation

Completion by Design

Lakeside School

University of Puget Sound

Health & Well-Being

Active Living by Design

Fair Food Network

MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation

Neighborcare Health

PATH

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Conservation & Sustainability

Environmental Science Associates

Hood Canal Coordinating Council

PCC Farmland Trust

Wildlands Network