The Purdue Welcome Center is the entry point for thousands of campus visitors each year. It features four tower kiosks and two large interactive wall displays. With over 20,000 people visiting the Welcome Center each year, I wanted to design an informational yet engaging kiosk to take over one of the large wall monitors.
With interactive kiosks, designing for accessibility was of key importance. We also planned to utilize existing content and repurpose it for this medium. We would pull stories, images and proof points from print and web materials to drive the design.
The design is colorful, fully interactive, and full of great content about the university. Navigation runs down the left side of the design in colorful boxes. The homepage includes a drone video, stories and testimonials from current students, proof points and facts, and a button to the live social media page, displaying real-time content.
The interior templates use the same design to best manage the team’s time building and designing it, as well as maintaining it which was important for our team. The six interior pages all have the same navigation and a consistent banner style across the top. The tiles in the right side of the design will be interactive and will display related content to the left when selected. The light gray box in the design shows where content will load. These base templates are shown without real content. The dark gray tiles will be a mixture of full color images, graphical elements, and cut-outs to break the grid visually.
The goal is to update the content quarterly with new information to keep it fresh and relevant. Due to some issues with the monitor height, I requested we purchase a built-in track pad to connect to accomplish appropriate accessibility standards with navigating these displays.
Client: Purdue University Welcome Center