LIM is pure NYC. Now their site is too.

Through stakeholder interviews and discovery, we looked at what united their undergrad and grad student prospects with the fashion industry experts LIM needed to work with. We found that ideal LIM prospects are creative, highly visual, and incredibly curious. They reflect the energy, street smarts and grit of the LIM student experience in the heart of NYC. They are doers – ambitious, entrepreneurial, self-merchandisers who are looking for guides as they blaze their own trail.

The new personas helped us to:

• Stay connected to our NYC roots
• Display the vibrancy and fearlessness of LIM creativity
• Create a “Learn by Doing” content strategy around industry experiences
• Stay inclusive to prospects that are local, national and international
• Measure effectiveness based on content engagement

Just like the school itself, the digital experience needed to tap into the heart of the fashion industry. Genuine NYC attitude, creativity and energy permeated throughout the site. From the UX, to the street-level inspired design to the focus on stories about LIM students and alumni who were making their mark throughout the fashion industry. It wasn’t enough to tell prospects what they could accomplish, we needed to show them exactly where LIM and NYC could take them.

The new site brings the vibrancy of LIM College and their unique New York experience to life through a simple, navigable and seamless platform. It is driven by a new content strategy focused on unique opportunities at LIM, while reflecting the diversity of the student and their experiences. And to help keep the content fresh, it was built with a modular approach that enables the LIM team to use more flexible tools for building, editing and updating content.

As part of the process we redesigned the LIM College site and provided a much more flexible and modern user experience. Authors have more flexible page layouts with a design system of modules and tools to create any type of content. They have tools that will also allow them to scale their site content as their needs evolve. They also have more granular role-based permissions to manage and control how content updates are made.

We achieved this by replatforming LIM College on the latest version of Drupal utilizing our ZenSource Drupal distribution which is incredibly easy to use and provides a frictionless, visual authoring interface with more flexibility. We also migrated them to a secure, scalable and highly performing AWS Cloud for hosting at the same time. As part of the ZenSource and AWS solution, we continue to proactively update them on the latest and most secure version of Drupal 9.

Using Drupal, we were able to develop a modern website with changes that would have a long-term impact.

We delivered a new website in the most up-to-date version of Drupal, within ZenSource - helping to solve the problems they had internally with content management and in helping to organize the site and make it more user-friendly. But more than that, we dug in to understand their brand and users, defining clearer customer journeys, and created a more complete, holistic and engaging experience for prospects. No other school navigates their students to the intersection of business and fashion quite like LIM.

And now the next generation of creative, entrepreneurial fashion minds can see the real places the LIM experience can take them.