Advancement & campaigns
Campaign websites for advancement teams that make the case for giving, tell donor stories well, and hold up through a multi-year campaign.
Web design for higher education, from admissions to advancement.
Universities serve many audiences. Your website has to serve them all.
University websites have to coordinate the needs of prospective students, current students, alumni, faculty, staff, and donors. Braid brings strategy, design, and engineering together for schools and units that need a clear public presence and durable systems behind it.
Our higher-education work includes UVA's McIntire School of Commerce and Darden School of Business. The McIntire site gives prospective students, current students, and alumni a clear, discoverable view of the school's offerings. Projects at this scale depend on stakeholder buy-in, accessibility and security compliance, single sign-on, and integrations with existing campus systems, all core parts of our web development practice.
What we build for colleges and universities.
Admissions & marketing
Marketing sites for schools and units that give prospective students a clear, discoverable view of programs, outcomes, and campus life.
Editorial content
Publishing systems for news offices and magazines, with editor workflows that let communications teams tell richer stories without developer help.
Student & faculty portals
Authenticated portals with single sign-on and role-based access, built on our web application development practice.
Accessibility
Higher education carries real accessibility obligations. We build to meet them, with semantic markup, keyboard support, and testing throughout the project.
Governance & workflows
Component systems and editorial permissions designed for distributed campus teams, so dozens of editors can publish without breaking the design.
McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia
A completely modern take on an enterprise website for higher-education in Charlottesville and the nation at large. Leveraging the McIntire School of Commerce's compelling brand to create an easy-to-use and discoverable overview of all offerings available to prospective students, current students, and alumni audiences.
International Tennis Hall of Fame
A digital exhibit that brought 600 museum artifacts to the world: the kind of collections storytelling that university libraries, archives, and museums need. Read the case study here.
Built for procurement, compliance, and the long term.
Enterprise higher-education projects involve wide stakeholder groups, formal procurement processes, and standards for accessibility, privacy, and security. Braid has worked through all of it, from garnering stakeholder buy-in to implementing single sign-on and integrating with existing enterprise software. Comprehensive builds run through our No-Limits Website program, and ambitious digital initiatives through Digital Innovation.
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