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The NAUgo mobile app now features a COVID-19 module that will contain all of the latest updates and links to official announcements. Push notifications will be utilized to send coronavirus updates specific to NAU. In addition to push notifications, the COVID-19 module will link to the NAU COVID-19 website, which contains updated news and a comprehensive archive of all NAU coronavirus updates.
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Project Description
In accordance with NAU’s “Mobile First” strategy, the Experience Design Team was tasked with deploying an upgraded NAU mobile app in July of 2018.
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User Demographics
Objectives
The primary objective of the project is to improve on the existing app by providing a deeper, more interactive experience that will contain features that students, faculty, staff, parents, and alumni really want and need.
Platform
The app is developed on the Modo mobile platform. It is currently available for iOS from the App store and for Android at Google Play.
Look & Feel
The image below shows the experience of the app as of July 2018. As you can see the home screen navigation was limited to just a few items that are critical to students, especially student workers. The home screen presented an opportunity to create a more robust navigation experience. To do this the XD team proposed broad “buckets” of items that the user can quickly navigate to and find what they need. An example of a bucket would be “Move” which contains information about campus transit, city transit, parking availability, parking payments, and getting here and away from campus. In addition to the Move bucket, designers proposed other buckets such as Live, Learn, Connect, and Work. The new information architecture is the image below right.
Timeline
The new enhancements to the mobile app were launched, on schedule, at the beginning of the 2018-19 academic year. Continued expansion of the app is ongoing.
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Patty Allenbaugh, Senior Web Designer Accordion Closed
Patty Allenbaugh is a Senior Web Designer and Certified User Experience Specialist on the NAU Experience Design Team. She earned her Bachelor’s in Architectural Design from Clemson University and her Master’s in Architecture from Columbia University.
Before coming to work for NAU in 2012, Patty held many diverse positions in the design field. She began her career designing first person shooter and real-time strategy games for LucasArts, a George Lucas game company. She was a Digital Lighting Technical Director specializing in CG creatures for feature films for over 10 years in Los Angeles. Her filmography includes projects like Spiderman II, X-Men II, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Night at the Museum and The Incredible Hulk. She also has many residential architectural design/build projects in both California and Arizona including her award-winning house design right here in Flagstaff, AZ. She has done freelance logo, website design and development work for over a dozen local small businesses. Additionally, Patty co-founded a successful organic farm business with her husband, Tyler in 2015.