Over the past several weeks, the Web Redesign Project team has continued making strong progress across design, governance, content planning, and technical implementation activities. As the project moves deeper into future-state planning and stakeholder collaboration, efforts are increasingly focused on refining how the college’s website will better support students, employees, and the broader community.
Recent work has centered on reviewing custom wireframes, refining website functionality requirements, preparing for June stakeholder engagement activities, and advancing foundational decisions that will shape the long-term structure and usability of the new website.
Recent Progress and Key Milestones
The project team recently completed major review cycles for the first round of custom wireframes and the evolving Site Functionality Document. These reviews helped further define the future-state experience for several of the college’s most important public-facing areas, including:
- Promotional Program Pages (Program Detail Pages)
- “Schools of” sites and pages
- Academics & Programs
- Admissions & Aid
- Campus Pages
- The ACC Newsroom
Significant effort has also gone into refining the future information architecture and user experience strategy for how academic content, departments, schools, and programs will relate to one another within the redesigned website. These discussions are helping establish a more intentional and connected experience for prospective students while also supporting clearer governance and content ownership processes internally.
In parallel with design and planning work, the project team finalized several foundational technical decisions related to the future web platform. These decisions include approaches for reusable website components, multilingual support, forms management, and the overall design system strategy that will help create a more consistent and scalable user experience across the institution’s web presence.
The team also established November 1 as the target deadline for content, photography, and video asset completion in support of testing, quality assurance, and launch readiness activities later this year.
Content Strategy and Governance Work Continues
As the redesign progresses, content strategy and governance planning remain major areas of focus.
Over the past month, the project team continued content inventory analysis and operational planning discussions to help prepare for large-scale content harvesting efforts across departments and divisions. This work is intended to help ensure that future website content is accurate, audience-focused, well-governed, and easier to maintain over time.
Additional discussions focused on publishing workflows, role-based permissions, and future environment planning for development, testing, and production systems. These governance conversations are helping establish clearer operational standards for how content will be created, reviewed, approved, and maintained once the redesigned website launches.
The team also began evaluating potential improvements to the website’s search experience as part of broader efforts to improve usability and content discoverability across the institution’s web ecosystem.
Stakeholder Engagement Expanding in June
A major focus for the next phase of the project will be stakeholder engagement and collaborative planning sessions scheduled throughout June.
The project team is currently finalizing workshops and engagement activities involving Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, and members of the college’s Web Workgroup. These sessions will help validate future-state content structures, governance models, content ownership approaches, and operational workflows.
Upcoming engagement efforts will include:
- Town-hall style collaboration sessions
- Academic Affairs workshops
- Student Affairs workshops
- Web governance and operational discussions
- Content planning and “harvesting”
- Usability testing preparation and coordination
These activities are intended to ensure the redesigned website reflects both institutional goals and the needs of the audiences it serves.
Expanded Scope Supports Future-State Planning
The project also recently expanded its design and planning scope to include future-state Academic department webpage planning. This addition will help improve continuity between Schools, Programs, and Departments while supporting a more unified and student-centered public web experience.
By incorporating department-level planning earlier in the redesign process, the college is better positioned to create clearer pathways between academic offerings, student services, and supporting departmental information.
Project Timeline and Next Steps
As design reviews and stakeholder collaboration activities have evolved, portions of the project schedule have been adjusted to accommodate additional planning, feedback, and implementation coordination. In response, the team has compressed and accelerated activities in later project phases to help maintain the overall targeted launch timeline.
At this time, the overall launch target remains unchanged.
Over the coming weeks, the project team will continue focusing on:
- Finalizing June workshop schedules and participant coordination
- Advancing governance and content ownership discussions
- Continuing search platform evaluation activities
- Demonstrating future content planning workflows
- Preparing for usability testing
- Expanding reusable website component development
- Supporting stakeholder communications and preview materials
The Web Redesign Project remains a highly collaborative effort involving stakeholders from across the college, and the continued engagement and feedback from campus partners continues to play an important role in shaping the future website experience.
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