A New Website Design

Thanks to the capstone students of NAIT in the Design Media & IT (DMIT) program, the Aquatic Biosphere site is getting an overhaul. Over the course of four terms, four different teams added their ideas, expertise and creativity to reimagine the website. Take a look at it here: AquaticBiosphereProject.ca and leave your comments on what you like about it and what you think is missing that still needs to be added.

The students created the site from the bottom up, designing the feel, structure, presentation and organisation of the site. They developed a site with a rich administrative backend with complex roles, added a fully enabled booking system, built an internal events management and volunteer scheduling system. The site is CMS enabled in many places and has a robust blog section built out. It has been a large undertaking for four separate teams and each team brought different aspects and ideas to bring the site to where it is today. Thank you to NAIT and its Work Integrated Learning (WIL) program that brings community organisations like the Aquatic Biosphere with real world problems together with students for practical experiences as part of the their graduation credentials. It creates incredible possibilities and we know the students we've worked with will be valued employees and entrepreneurs. Credits to the teams: Team 1 (Winter 2023) - Leo Atienza - Developer, Thu Le - IT Business Analyst, Beckham Crann - Developer, Brian Mendoza - Technical Lead, Tyler Hum - Developer, Jimifirst Hernandez - UI/UX Designer, Marko Latinovic - Developer, Mathieu Swaby - UI/UK Designer, Louisa Luo - Developer, Stephen Toliver - Developer, Trustin Tran - Developer

Team 1 Winter 2023

Team 2 (Fall 2023) - Sydney H Engblom, Kent Wilhelm Chen, Zachary G Thompson, Zeyu Zhao, Michael Armenta, Rebecca Nguyen, Jacob M Khaner, Tristan M Laplante, Marissa E Werbiski.

Team 2 Fall 2023 - no group photo available

Team 3 (Winter 2024) - Cody Tompkins, Logan Rafferty, Andrew Ng, Peter Becker, Antonio Solito, Emmanuel Isaloc, Jared Creighton, Anuoluwa Fijabi, Asanka Wansooriya, Rossel Hilario, Honeylyn Jimenez

Team 3 Winter 2024

Team 4 (Winter 2025) - Tye Arseneault (DMIT - CSD), Ryan Delaronde (DMIT - CSD), Austin “Red” Plican (DMIT - CSD), Sebin Mathew (DMIT - CSD), Samuel Appleton (DMIT – CSD), Rena Ayesha Tovillo (DMIT - BA), Muktar Bakal (DMIT – BA).

Team 4 Winter 2025

We wish all the students involved in these projects every success in their post-graduate life. If you're a business looking to hire designers and coders, make sure to check out NAIT's DMIT graduating class.