1. Building Sapienza web site

2. April 12 2011 Building new Sapienza web sitePagina 2 Comitato editoriale web Institutional Website Editorial Board Presidente: Mario Morcellini Direttore amministrativo o suo delegato: Carlo Musto DAmore Delegato del Comitato InfoSapienza: Paolo Renzi Ufficio stampa e comunicazione: Alessandra Barberis Ripartizione Relazioni Internazionali: Antonella Cammisa Ufficio cerimoniale: Danny Cinalli Ripartizione Studenti: Emi Cipriano Ufficio valorizzazione ricerca scientifica: Sabrina Luccarini Ripartizione Personale: Augusto Pantaleoni Area InfoSapienza – Webmaster: Riccardo Tacconi Ufficio relazioni con il pubblico: Daniela Vingiani D.R. 507 23.10.2009

3. How we worked

4. April 12 2011 Building new Sapienza web sitePagina 4 Main results Guidelines about the new home page layout (it/eng) Guidelines about the structure of the new navigation menus (it/eng) Guidelines about the coordination between central web site and web pages of faculties and departments Final proposal

5. April 12 2011 Building new Sapienza web sitePagina 5 Methods and tools Cooperative work (wiki) Working groups home page it/eng navigation menu it/eng coordination central site/peripheric web pages maintenance of the existing site it/eng Periodical meetings

6. April 12 2011 Building new Sapienza web sitePagina 6 Working steps (1) Step 1: benchmarking (Italian and international university web sites) using a survey form Step 2: classification of different existing patterns about: home page navigation menu coordination central site/peripheral structures web pages Step 3: interaction with ICT Division (InfoSapienza) for technological aspects (Cms)

7. April 12 2011 Building new Sapienza web sitePagina 7 Working steps (2) Step 4: analysis of best practices existing among national and international web sites VS current Sapienza web site (design, layout, menus structure, information architecture) Step 5: editing of specific guidelines and delivery of a final proposal Pagina 7

8. Rebuilding the home page

9. April 12 2011 Building new Sapienza web sitePagina 9 Home page (1) Goals: To increase communicative power and emotional impact To reduce cognitive complexity To comply with the generalist connotation of our university (in the meaning of presence of a variety of disciplines, taught and researched)

10. April 12 2011 Building new Sapienza web sitePagina 10 Home page (2) Choices: Prevalence of images and graphics, reduction of the text component Whole Screen Horizontally Extended lay out Vertically Fixed lay out (to avoid the so called below the line) Explicit navigation map

11. The work on the navigation menu

12. April 12 2011 Building new Sapienza web sitePagina 12 The Navigation menu Goal: to take into account the different audiences that interact with the web site Proposal: to build navigation paths both for target users and for functions

13. Work on the correlation between Central site and Peripheral sites (faculties, departments, etc)

14. April 12 2011 Building new Sapienza web sitePagina 14 Central site and peripheral sites Analysis: a specific survey showed a great deal of heterogeneity in content, style, and function. Very often the contents do not respond to dictates (Italian law expressly specify the compulsory contents of the PA web sites). Goals: to avoid compartmentalization, to promote correlation between sites and to build consistent navigation paths

15. April 12 2011 Building new Sapienza web sitePagina 15 Central site and peripheral sites: final proposal (1) To build a ready format for the new sites of faculties that must contain: -a CMS system with a pre - designed layout (but with customizable elements) -Course catalogue -Correlation between courses and professors -Information about exams

16. April 12 2011 Building new Sapienza web sitePagina 16 Central site and peripheral sites: final proposal (2) In addition to the above mentioned elements other functions could be added to manage: -News -Lessons timetable -Thesis assignment -External training -Etc.

17. Final proposals

18. April 12 2011 Building new Sapienza web sitePagina 18 How to proceed: final operational proposal The Web Editorial Board: has indicated the Cineca (an interuniversity consortium) as the most appropriate technical partner to carry out the project has suggested to proceed with an internal call to search for professional resources in order to create a coordinated working group has asked to identify one or more mother toungue editors / translators for deployment and update of the English version of the web site

19. Partnership with Cineca and implementation of the new web portal

20. April 12 2011 Building new Sapienza web sitePagina 20 Cineca methodology (1) In order to achieve the best user experience and to meet the strategic, communication and service objectives, Cineca has developed a methodology called UXlab, consisting of: User-Centered Design (UCD) participatory planning

21. April 12 2011 Building new Sapienza web sitePagina 21 Cineca methodology (2) This approach consists of: -Involvement of stakeholders and key users -specific interviews and user research activities The main phases of this methodology are: 1.understanding and specifying the context of use 2.clarifying both the users and the organizational requirements 3.producing solutions 4.evaluating the designed solutions

22. April 12 2011 Building new Sapienza web sitePagina 22 Earlier versions of www.uniroma1.it 1998 2001 2003 2006

23. April 12 2011 Building new Sapienza web sitePagina 23 2011: www.uniroma1.it 2006