Diana Luu's profile

UC Santa Cruz Career Center Information Architecture

Currently, I'm in charge of the carousel on our site. I direct the user to content with banners, sometimes using a cute illustration. 
The organization I work with on campus offers advising services, workshops and career fairs. Finding student positions, accessing advising handouts, and articles on how to do well at interviews can be found through the website. It's very dense, and over 30 people with varying technical ability take part in managing it. 
 
Formerly, the site was managed not by a program or system but by one very gifted IT guy who knew how to write source code by heart. He retired, and in his absence I filled in the space of the Student Assitant/ Lady Who Codes only for Spring 2013, before helping the office transition to a new content management system during the summer. This was an update all on-campus organizations were required to do. The boundaries of my role as Code Guru then melded with managing information architecture.
 
Here's a snippet. The new Career Center website:
The same page on the former Career Center Website (rest in peace)
I help the 30-some people in the organization to think of how to structure content in their respective managerial areas while being mindful of whatever constrictions exist by the standards outlined by the University of California. We edited and culled the system of of 300 pages that have accrued over the last 10 years to essential, easily found pieces of information.
 
Teaching or consulting design-thinking in terms of content was something that I found I had a knack for, as I am one who imposes order and structure on data on auto-pilot, who also loves to create capabiliites for information so that it takes the user no thinking to get to it. 
UC Santa Cruz Career Center Information Architecture
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UC Santa Cruz Career Center Information Architecture

My recent experience with restructuring the content of the organization I work with on campus!

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