The Challenge: The current NASA website needs improvement since its users are having trouble finding resources and often get lost. The information is overloaded and unorganized, and the navigation system is duplicated and not streamlined.
Our user Henry Armstrong is an instructor at the Art Center College and he gives his students an assignment on designing spaceships. The assignment involves researching types of spacecraft, and a future robotics mission on Mars. He requires the students to conduct research on NASA's website. Henry also explores NASA's website to check out NASA's Design Challenge for university students.
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The 8 titles are reduced to 6 titles.
The double navigation bar is consolidated into a single navigation bar.
Both "Topics" and "Missions" are about missions, so they are combined and placed under "Missions."
"NASA Audiences" was renamed to "Education" and the "STEM Engagement" page merged with "Educators" and "Students".
For the "Galleries", "Ultra High Definition Videos" and "image of the day" are removed, and divided into "Images", "Videos", and "Usage and Copyright"
The double navigation bar is consolidated into a single navigation bar.
Both "Topics" and "Missions" are about missions, so they are combined and placed under "Missions."
"NASA Audiences" was renamed to "Education" and the "STEM Engagement" page merged with "Educators" and "Students".
For the "Galleries", "Ultra High Definition Videos" and "image of the day" are removed, and divided into "Images", "Videos", and "Usage and Copyright"
As a result of testing our HIFI prototypes, we observed an increase in success rates compared to NASA's current website.
Task one went up from a 20% to 75% success rate and task two went from a 20% to 100% success rate.
Its intuitive, user-friendly navigation, logical structure, and vibrant orange color accents were well received by users.
