
RISD ID Website
Team
Tom W. (Supervisor) Leslie F. (Supervisor)
Contributions
Lead Designer
Categorization
Contract
Time
2025
Introduction
The website suffers from poor accessibility, inconsistent design, and inadequate maintenance. Rather than presenting our program professionally, it lacks clarity, reliability, and visual polish, failing to provide useful information to students and ultimately damaging the department's reputation.
Over the summer of 2025 I worked with the ID department in researching, designing, prototyping, and deploying a new official site that serves as both a showcase for student works and a reliable informational hub for events and resources.
Research
Through auditing and testing the site I was find multiple issues with the site.
Broken navigation and accessibilty issues
Consistency issues
Outdated content
Complex IA
Upon interviewing students (n=5) from the ID program about their experiences with the website. Students expressed that: