Jurnal Sistem Teknik Industri
Vol. 27 No. 3 (2025): JSTI Volume 27 Number 3 July 2025

Design Thinking Implementation for User Experience Improvement of UNS Graduation Website: A Case Study

Tamma, Ghani Naufal (Unknown)
Iftadi, Irwan (Unknown)
Astuti, Rahmaniyah Dwi (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
02 Aug 2025

Abstract

Design thinking is a human-centered problem-solving methodology focusing on innovative solutions. Design thinking can be used to improve the user experience of a website. Design thinking consists of empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test phase. Based on preliminary observation, the current UNS Graduation Website demonstrates significant usability issues that interrupt the user experience. The lack of error prevention and informative feedback leads to repeated mistakes and user frustration. Additionally, visual and functional inconsistencies further reduce usability. These issues were confirmed through the System Usability Scale (SUS), which yielded a low score, indicating a difficult and unpleasant user experience. To address these issues, this study applies the design thinking methodology to re-design the UNS Graduation Website with the aim of improving its usability and enhancing user experience. The prototype is tested by 20 users using usability testing tools named Maze and System Usability Scale (SUS). The result based on Maze testing, the prototype got a success rate percentage of 100% and a usability score of 85 for the UNS Graduation Website. The usability score tested by SUS also increased from 43,25 to 82. This affirms the successful outcome of the re-design in improving the user experience and increasing the usability of the UNS Graduation Website.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jsti

Publisher

Subject

Control & Systems Engineering Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management Engineering Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering

Description

Jurnal Sistem Teknik Industri (JSTI) of Universitas Sumatera Utara, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering, was published in 1998. Until now, the number of publications has reached 21 volumes, each of which is published by TALENTA Publisher twice a year . Each volume has two ...