VistaLab

Project Type
Website Design
Industry
Research
Role
Design & front-end
Duration
8 weeks
Budget
$24,000

Project Overview

VistaLab publishes about forty papers a year and had them behind a search box that returned nothing useful.

Problem

The site was organized around the institution — departments, people, news — when almost everyone arriving wanted one specific paper and knew its title.

Solution

We inverted it. Papers became the primary object, with authors, departments and topics as facets. Filters work without JavaScript, so the whole archive is crawlable and weighs 34 KB.