Auxiliary services are part of the university, but they also operate like a collection of businesses, serving enrolled students, faculty, staff, visitors and the surrounding community. That creates some unique challenges when designing a website. During our discovery interview with Jonna Ann, the executive director of ACES, and her team, we quickly realized that they […]
Ever since tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews came onto the scene, the search landscape has fundamentally changed. Today’s prospective students and parents aren’t just clicking through traditional “blue link” search results anymore; they’re asking questions and getting instant, synthesized answers right on the page. The scale of this shift is hard […]
Everything appears to be speeding up with industrialization, automation, globalization, digitization and more recently with AI. To many, however, speed kills and it has created a counterculture of slowness. Back in 1986, the first McDonalds was opened in Italy. Immediately after, Carlo Petrini launched slow food movement as a protest against its ethos. He advocated […]