Colorful handdrawn portrait of Xavier wearing a yellow beanie and blue glasses

Xavier Watson

Hi, I'm Xavier! I'm a user experience designer and front-end web developer working in higher education.

Projects

Eastern Kentucky University Homepage

Design, development, and migration of Eastern Kentucky University homepage in Wordpress CMS. Responsibilities included building new components for theme and updating legacy interfaces to improve user experience.


Live Site

EKU College of Health Sciences

Redesigned homepage components and migrated site from Drupal to Wordpress.


Live Site
Screenshot of mobile navigation with nested maroon arrows on a floral backdrop with a maroon top navigation header

Mobile Menu Redesign

Redesigned EKU Wordpress theme default mobile menu into dropdowns with improved accessibility.

Live Site Case Study
Screenshot of higher education webpage with grid navigation design featuring images of students and staff for each item in grid, followed by two buttons below

EKU Admissions

Rebuilt and migrated full site into Wordpress CMS from OmniCMS and Drupal.

Live Site
Screenshot of EKU website homepage with a yellow container at the top with an alert that reads 'EKU Monthly Test - Focus on Preparedness - EKU Test: This is a scheduled test of the EKU Emergency Notification System.

RSS Rave Alert

PHP script that parses an emergency RSS feed and outputs alerts at the top of EKU webpages.

Live Site
Magnified screenshot of Javascript code on a dark background

WP Alt Text Label Replacement

Wordpress function of vanilla JS snippet that modifies the Alternative Text label in the Wordpress Admin Panel Edit Media screen.

Codepen
Screenshot of website with a pink and white color scheme with two columns featuring an image of person sitting at table with flowers, a blue announcement area with a hand illustration, and 'Jeanne Vaccaro' spelled out in a decorative font

Jeanne Vaccaro

A playful and colorful site designed for highlighting academic work, events, and press. Features original illustrations and patterns.

Live Site
Screenshot of website with green, pink and cream color scheme featuring three columns and illustrations of a pink rhinoceros

Shortcake: An Animal Crossing Fansite

An early project site that includes illustrations, HTML, CSS, and Javascript (2021).

Live Site Github