WEBSITE DESIGN & FEATURES | 2008-2022
MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
A lively website with many useful features was a primary platform for increasing the visibility of MIT’s world-class humanistic fields. This page shows a few examples of the features we developed for the School’s site over 15 years.
Website Development and Design Team, 2008-2022
Design: Emily Hiestand and Jon Sachs; Web Development: Robert Wilt
Leadership: Dean Deborah Fitzgerald (initial design, 2009); Dean Melissa Nobles (update, 2016)
WEB FEATURE | HOMEPAGE
The homepage presented a series of frequently updated images to represent the School’s news and research/teaching portfolio.
Solving Climate Series (archival link is slow-ish; worth the wait!)
WEB FEATURE | BOOKSHELF
The research of MIT's humanities, arts, and social science fields appears principally in the form of books, major papers, and music and theater works. These gems of the School provide new knowledge and analysis, innovation and insight, guidance for policy, and nourishment for lives.
Browse the shelf (archival link)
Image: MIT Anthropology, classroom project
WEB FEATURE | ONLINE TOUR
This handy, online tour of MIT’s thirteen humanistic fields for undergrads is one of the most visited parts of the website. We designed the tour so students can see a swift overview of all fields, and explore any of them more deeply from one page.
WEB FEATURE | THE LISTENING ROOM
Introduced in 2012, this free online collection shares MIT music with the world. Music exemplifies the arts at the Institute, which are rooted in experimentation and excellence. The works in the collection are composed and/or performed by MIT’s renowned Music faculty and by student-musicians, many of whom study in the Institute’s conservatory-level program. The Listening Room was so successful, reaching a global audience, that it was adopted by the MIT Music Department and incorporated on their own website.
Listen! Classical, Jazz, World, and Faculty Opus at MIT
Project Team: Concept and curator: Clarise Snyder; Design, Editor: Emily Hiestand
Research: Stephanie Muto; Leadership: Dean Deborah Fitzgerald
WEB FEATURE | NEWS & FEATURE STORIES
A major focus of our program was publishing insightful news and features about the research, courses, people, and innovations in MIT’s humanistic fields.
Browse more stories
News Team, 2008-2022
Principal Writers: Kathryn O’Neill, Alison Lanier, Leda Zimmerman, Daniel Pritchard
Photographers: Jon Sachs, Allegra Boverman, Richard Howard
Director, Editor, and Designer: Emily Hiestand
WEB FEATURE
INTERACTIVE MAP
With this map, users could explore the global scale and reach of MIT's humanities, arts, and social science research, teaching, and collaboration. Each point on the map represents one or more projects, and all MIT’s humanistic disciplines are included — from to political scientists studying health services in Guatemala, to anthropologists researching post-Soviet Mongolia, to linguists revolutionizing education in Haiti.
Browse the map (archival link)
Project team: Emily Hiestand, Daniel Pritchard
Leadership: Dean Melissa Nobles