NASA Redesign

Case study,

NASA Redesign

Description

Project type

Heuristics Evaluation

Roles

UX/UI, Usability

Tools

Figma

Platform

Web

Timeline

2 Days

Team

Heather
Sara
Setareh

The brief

Our team performed heuristics evaluation of NASA’s desktop webpage to simplify the NASA website.

The Solution

We improved the website's navigation experience by starting from the homepage and going to downloads to find NASA's podcasts. Our approach was guided by Jakob Neilsen's 10 usability heuristics, which we had identified beforehand.

View final Prototype here.

VIEW FINAL PROJECT

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Usability Engineering: Heuristic Evaluation

usability principles

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Problem Space: ‍NASA's Website Needs Help

ORIGINAL WEBSITE

NASA's website brings the latest news, images, and videos from America's space agency, pioneering scientific discovery. It also includes NASA's educational podcasts, e-books, and apps.

WHY REDESIGNING NASA?

NASA's website is convoluted, making it challenging to find the desired information, and locating a good article demands a lot of time and effort.

We focused our improvements on the user’s experience navigating the website by starting at the home page, and going to "Downloads" to find one of NASA’s many podcasts.

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Design Challenge:
‍Make Navigation Easy

HOW MIGHT WE?

From secondary research, we developed our design challenge statement:

How can we improve NASA's web navigation for user so that they have a much easier experience searching for articles, news or podcast?

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Solution:
Small Changes Helped

Bringing the Research to Life

During our analysis of the navigation flow from the homepage to podcasts, we identified approximately 8 violations of Jakob Nielsen's 10 usability heuristics. To address these issues, we developed new pages and rearranged certain features while leveraging Nasa's brand guidelines and established design system.

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Next Steps+Key Learnings:
Learning & Improving

Key Takeaways

After implementing our heuristic evaluation, we found that empathizing with the user yielded the best solution ideas. Minimal design can effectively remedy an inconsistent and unorganized website. The next step would be to conduct usability testing involving actual users to obtain feedback on the efficacy of our modifications.

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