Product Roadmap

Pilot product roadmap for www.exploratorium.edu based on 2024 Strategic Action Plan, and recently developed Online Strategy.

Design challengE

Exploratorium.edu was born in 1993, and was one of the first 600 websites on the internet. Ten years ago it was moved into Drupal to better manage it, and since that time it has grown significantly and also proliferated in designs, microsites, and overall complexity.

My RolE

Project manager Wrote scope, timeline, stakeholder and communications management plans. Facilitated presentations of ongoing web work. Managed consulting relationship.

Design ProcESS

Collaborators: Consultant, Museum managing directors
Interviews: Marketing, Content editors, IT integrations,
Comparative & competitive analysis
Information architecture review
User stories
Event / experience deep dive
Entity mapping
Calendar redesign

Solutions

Measures of Success

Secure website with sustainable maintenance
Logically structured & functional back-end
Simplify internal workflow and content management
Make it possible to apply consistent brand /global design changes across website
Strong, productive relationship with consultant

Key learnings

It is more complicated than you can ever imagine

Lift and shift + path-based routing not an option for this level of complexity

Global design changes require a precedent for institutional design approval