Education Site Audit & Information Architecture Restructuring

ORIGO Education x XDS  

ORIGO Education came to us [my agency] with an initial ask for a comprehensive UX audit of their e-commerce math education product site. Their previous website held a treasure trove of useful product information hidden away within a convoluted information architecture. I focused my audit on how to consolidate different KPI paths & user journeys within convoluted product & content page flows. The audit findings lead into a full website re-design with established conversion KPIs we were aiming to improve. The marketing department at ORIGO was also ready to make some large-scale organizational changes — while our initial ask was to improve the e-commerce experience, the ORIGO executive team decided to switch to an online catalogue, making their new primary KPI a lead-gen form. I pivoted to create templates that focused on a boutique catalog experience, taking attention off of smaller e-commerce sales & onto ORIGO’s core products. See sitemap iterations below.

Similar to other UX audits & templated solutions we’ve worked on, we created a module-based template system that consolidate visual language used across the site. The XDS design team brought the ORIGO brand to life by bringing the client’s existing characters to the fore-front of our designs.

The XDS development team collaborated with UX & Art to create the templates & modules within a WordPress CMS. These solutions met the client’s need for flexibility while maintaining our refreshed brand standards. With the decision to shift from e-commerce KPIs to form lead-gen, our CRM strategy team jumped in to overhaul the existing CRM structures. Combining a fresh new website with a powerful CRM engine & email strategy will empower ORIGO to move into this next phase of business goals.

    Redesigned homepage
    Original site navigation

    The original ORIGO Education site, shown above, triggers user cognitive overload on first page load.

    Proposed navigation 1

    This WIP sitemap cleans up the previous sitemap & creates clean categories for product sections that have different KPIs.

    live site nav

    This sitemap represents the live site & features a clean navigation, leaving plenty of focal areas for the ORIGO brand characters to come to life!