Enhancing HKUST students' academic experience with the highest quality support services.

We started by assessing various content and reorganised them into sections and categories. We took into consideration all the different use cases and scenarios for other libraries. While doing so, we consolidated key user flows to come up with a content structure.

All in all, the main approach was to make sure the information being displayed stays relevant to the user at any given time ensuring efficiency and effectiveness.

The colours we chose were designed to match HKUST’s branding colour to display the university’s qualities of trustworthiness and expertise. We carefully selected a good contrast between a dark shade of blue and a lighter yet brighter shade of blue. We added purple into the palette to give it warmth.

As the site is quite content heavy, we designed the layout in a way that the user will not drown in all the information. We provided breaks to keep the user interested, used contrast to communicate the level of importance of the information and lastly we provided relevant content to encourage the user to continuously engaging with the site

This project provided our development team with lots of exciting challenges. The site was built on top of HKUST's Drupal Distribution. We implemented periodic daily API imports from UST's credit transfer API, pulling in over 11,000 course records from various educational organisations and programmes across the world, and developing search pages for users to easily get accurate information on course mappings. We also developed a resource section for user guides and relevant documents for UST students and staff to use.