[IxDA Discuss] design school web sites (was: In case you know anyone who might be interested...)

[Peyush Agarwal]

This I feel compelled to respond to :)

Having worked on the inside of a large educational institution on websites, I can certainly identify with your experience, however, I can't claim to have sympathy with it (didn't find this situation acceptable when I was responsible on the inside either).

I mean, would you accept any excuse/reason from an IxD candidate with a lousy site, and consider them to be any better than the quality of their presentation? In my view, one is responsible for all the communication made on one's behalf, upon one's behest. I really would like to say in potential interviews that I wasn't able to make a better portfolio for lack of time and have it work. (please, not being snarky)

-Peyush


< We have internal teams to handle the online education products as well as
the web sites. Many of the web sites have not been updated since they were
built years ago, it just has not been a priority. That seems to be changing
though, as we now have 30 to complete by year's end. However we will have
little time to deal with the redesign of the sites, it's more of a refacing
if anything.

Generally the schools are responsible for upkeep, but they are very busy.
That doesn't mean we don't have good designers internally to make the sites
more representative, we do. I expect the next round of updates to be nicer
sites and more reflective of the schools. But we won't have the amount of
time we'd like to really push design school sites to really have that punch.
We just don't have enough staff or time at the moment.>


-Peyush