Gettysburg College Website Search Experience

• Prize
  Honorable Mention in User Experience Design / UI & UX Design
• Company
  Happy Cog
• Lead
  MJ Johnson and Dana Pavlichko
• Team
  MJ Johnson, Dana Pavlichko, Chris Cashdollar, Jes Barkan DeGennaro
• Client
  Gettysburg College
• Video
  Link to video

For our website redesign for Gettysburg College, we thought about how the intersectionality, ambiguity, and possibility of the liberal arts translates to an interface. Our thinking and design system factored in a people-first approach to search functionality with the goal of making current and prospective Gettysburg students feel confident on their path toward choosing an area of study. We thought about how students search for a major when looking for schools. The search field was pre-populated with terms that mapped both directly and indirectly to major programs, yielding interesting results.