Designing and developing a clean, vibrant, and easy-to-navigate interface that engages.
Campus Living Centres needed a centralized website to showcase their student housing properties across Canada. The goal was to make it easier for domestic and international students to find accommodation near their post-secondary institution, and make it easy for the internal team to manage listings from a single location.
They also wanted the platform to offer multiple intuitive ways to search, from city to school to property name, and include engaging content to support SEO and long-term relevance. Having already partnered with Cornerstone on other projects, they returned to us to bring this new platform to life.
Using Adobe XD, we designed a clean, responsive, and easy-to-navigate interface. The result is a site that feels fresh and welcoming, while maintaining a focus on functionality.
We developed the site using WordPress to strike a balance between flexibility and usability. A major focus was on ensuring that content editors could manage all property data from a single point, thereby eliminating duplicate work and streamlining updates.
We built a custom search experience that allows users to browse by City, Institution, or Property Name. Whether students know where they want to live or just where they’re going to school, the platform would be able to adapt to their search behavior and help them find a match quickly.
We implemented Google Maps views for both Property and Institution listings. This provides users with a visual context of where each residence is located and improves the site’s usability, especially for students unfamiliar with the area.
The new Student Housing Canada website makes it simple for students to find housing options tailored to their school and city, all on a platform that’s fast, intuitive, and easy to manage.
With dynamic search tools, a centralized CMS setup, and a clean, responsive design, we designed SHC to deliver both an excellent user experience and backend efficiency.
Kent was fantastic overseeing the process from start to finish and Kira was fantastic through the design phase. Their feedback, work and open communication led to a brand new website that exceeded our expectations. Overall we were really impressed.
Shaun Freeman, Manager, Marketing & Sales
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