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The current College of Computing at UNC Charlotte’s website was created about seven years ago, so it is in desperate need of a redesign. I searched around to find out what other universities were doing with their subpages for colleges and departments. Blogs and newsfeeds are becoming hot, so I knew I wanted to have that in there somewhere (they also help webpages come up higher up on the search engines). Another trend is having large images that change every few seconds with a short description. Movement and images are the main things that catch someone’s attention right away.

I started by reorganizing the site’s infrastructure to be more user friendly. I tried to keep it in line with the main UNCC’s web design and colors, so you can still tell you are at UNCC. It will be a definite improvement to the current CCI’s webpage, which a technology based college really needs to be up with current standards.

With very limited budget and supplies, and having to put 100 invitations and programs together by-hand, I was able to come up with a creative solution. I had to figure out how to visualize cybercrime, the main topic of the conference. I created a mini police crime folder with Staples’ ivory cover stock, and plain copy paper for the mini pieces of paper inside. I stapled the “News Media Release” over the longer sheet of conference speaker bios in the invitation, and the same for the program’s schedule and speaker bios. In the invitation I left the hand-drawn map (with directions on the backside) loose so you could take it with you.

Invitation with map

program

I chose the fonts Handwritten-Dakota and American Typewriter to make it look like an authentic police letter, I even added a case number from the date. If you notice the “Victims” are IP addresses to relate it to cybercrime.