Wolfprint

"WolfPrint FollowMe printing makes it possible for NC State students, faculty and staff to submit a print job from one location and then pick it up at one of the many WolfPrint FollowMe printers on campus."

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How can printing at NC State be more intuitive and efficient?

What: Over North Carolina State University North Carolina State University is a public research university in Raleigh, North Carolina. NC State has an enrollment of more than 35,000 students. Everyone who is involved with North Carolina State University uses the printing systems. This includes students and faculty.

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The problem: The current wolf print website is difficult to navigate through. This is a problem due to the current layout of the system, as well as the hierarchy on each page. The current color scheme, logos, and icons do not match the brand identity of the company.

Heuristic Markup: How to Print

Through examining the current printing process, the main issues were: Hierarchy, color scheme, layout, overabundance of text, consistency, no context, bad user feedback.

Content Exploration

Through examining the current printing process, we were able to discover the main issues with the look and feel of the current wolfprint application.They were. the hierarchy, inconsistent, too much negative space, and quick links.

Persona

Daniel
NC State undergraduate studenet, age 18
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Scenario:
Daniel is new to NC State and has an english paper due in an hour. He needs to print from his laptop because all the computers are taken in the english building.

Motivations:
He needs to print from his laptop because all the computers are taken in the english building.
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Frustrations:
Asking for help, disorganization, nonintuitive.

Design Criteria and Opportunities

Create a new experience printing off of the wolf print website that gives better user feedback. This experience should make printing more efficient to print off of a personal computer as well as finding the closest printer.

Brand Voice

NC State’s brand based off of four traits: courageous, innovative, intellectual, purposeful.

Brand Colors

The color scheme has to include the three brand colors of NC State: Wolfpack Red, White, and Black.

Logo & Type

NC State’s primary typeface is Univers. , secondary typeface is Glypha, the logo should be used on all core communications.

Content & Style

In content and style, NC State imagery is big, bold and impactful.

Market Review Inspo

I looked at most common printing applications, such as from the desktop: Apple & Windows, and online: Google & Paper cut.

Redeveloping the System Architecture

We broke up the system architecture and interactions onto note cards to organize and optimize the workflow.

Hierarchy

Sketched out different layouts for each step to have consistency in the hierarchy for each action item.

Paper Prototype

Created a quick mock-up of what the interface interaction could look like.

NC State Color Palette: Tints and Shades

For each of the swatches below, level 400 is the base secondary color. Light mode: background: #ffffff, element: 400, hover: 600. Dark mode: background: 400, element:600, hover: 700

NC State Typefaces:

The following are font-family names for Univers and Glypha typefaces. Univers, Univers Condensed, Glypha Three different font-weight are available in each family.Light: 300 Roman: 400 Bold: 700

Univers

Glypha

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
1234567890

Icons:

The icons in the UI/UX

High Fidelty Wireframe

Taking the paper prototype and merging the fundamentals of NC State's branding to create a high fidelty model.

Wolfprint

WolfPrint FollowMe printing makes it possible for NC State students, faculty and staff to submit a print job from one location and then pick it up at one of the many WolfPrint FollowMe printers on campus.

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