Meredith Wynn

Name Pronunciation

me-re-dith win

Pronouns

She / Her

IT Web Designer/Developer II

Department:

User Experience

Email: mlwynn@ncsu.edu


My areas of expertise

Shout-outs From My Colleagues

Meredith is an enthusiastic, cheerful, and tireless advocate for our users! Not only does she have web development and content strategy skills that make our website usable for the millions of people who access it annually, but she's also dedicated to conducting user research so that we can make informed decisions about usability and accessibility. The Databases pages and our staff profiles are just two examples of Meredith's excellent work. I might be biased, but I think they're head and shoulders above any similar pages on other academic library websites. Meredith, you're a gem of a colleague, and I'm grateful to work with you!

— Robin Davis

I brought an idea to the User Research Team: let’s learn more about the Faculty Research Commons users and their needs. Out of this idea came a great collaboration with Margaret, Robin, Meredith, and Cindy. We worked together for months to gather a variety of data, allowing us to dig into why, how, and how often faculty use these spaces at Hunt and Hill Libraries. From our study we were able to make more apparent the value and use of these spaces and give voice to the users’ recommendations for improvement. Each person contributed their valuable perspectives, time, skills, and technical know-how. It was a wonderful collaboration and I want to thank each partner for being part of our FRC study power team! Our collaboration is a great example of what makes it special to work at the Libraries. Thank you!

— Kim Duckett

In 2019, the Library Programs Committee approached web team about improving the user experience on our Library Workshops discovery page. Meredith helped us conduct user research in early 2020 to identify where our users struggled with finding and registering for workshops on our existing page. Even though the web team has had many other projects and priorities since that initial user research, Meredith did not let the workshops page drop from her list of projects, and just recently she completed the list of upgrades that we identified in 2020. As a result of her efforts our users can now search within our workshops offerings, filter workshops by location or category, and find all dates on which a workshop will be offered. (There are other features that I can't properly describe, but reflect the work that occurred under the hoods of Drupal and REPORTER.) Thank you Meredith for sticking with this project! The new pages is so much more functional!

— Anne Burke

Simply put, Web Team solves problems, and fast. An increasing number of Libraries departments are producing different kinds of content across different platforms. Web Team has been adept at not only enabling departments to produce new kinds of content, but also helping External Relations leverage and re-use that content. The team has been incredibly responsive to (and patient with!) out-of-left-field, what-if questions by thinking through the implications of back-end changes from both a technology perspective and a consistency one. They respond quickly with solutions and implementations informed by the Libraries' overall mission, rather than playing defense against changes to the complex infrastructure that they have to maintain. Web Team is always helpful, thoughtful, reasonable, and fast.

— Chris Vitiello