Ohio State is in the process of revising websites and program materials to accurately reflect compliance with the law. While this work occurs, language referencing protected class status or other activities prohibited by Ohio Senate Bill 1 may still appear in some places. However, all programs and activities are being administered in compliance with federal and state law.

Standard Site Roadmap

BUX theme displaying on different devices

Over the last year, our Web Services Team developed a phased approach to implementing updates and additions to our Drupal Standard Website template. This included enhancements to our Newsletter Content type to provide users with more options for displaying content, the addition of the BUX Hero Image options and a UX/UI refresh of the Filters in content types using this feature. We also completed styling updates throughout the template to achieve visual alignment with the Buckeye UX (BUX) Design System. Upcoming is a UX/UI design refresh for News and Events.

As we move forward, we are adopting a quarterly approach to managing updates. We continue to work with our website advisory group and base our roadmap planning on their feedback, along with college priorities and internal resource considerations.

We will continue to update this page with details and next steps. If you have any questions, please contact ascwebservices@osu.edu.

2025 - 2026

Continued rollout of UX/UI updates for News and Event content types

Continued BUX alignment throughout site template

Prototyping UX/UI updates for the People Content type 

  • Removing placeholder image, allowing no image to display

Concept dynamic content

  • Adding related news events to the single event and news story
  • Creating blocks that can be added to landing pages to display news, events, research, galleries and people using taxonomy

Concept development for Research and Courses

  • Potentially adding an additional content type

Front Page

  • Explore adding filtering to blocks for News, Events, People

Identify additional BUX components to add to our Advanced Section

  • Question & Answer
  • Link List
  • Listicle
  • Interior Page Hero

Events

  • Optional Featured News Story and Featured Event 

Develop Print View

Explore creating Calendar view for Events

Secondary navigation for Landing Pages

  • Users will more easily recognize if Landing Page is front door for microsite/content section (ie. Future Students)

Explore more robust Microsite functionality

Implementing dynamic content

Programs/Majors/Minors display more visually

Enhancing UX for recruitment/Future Students and Alumni/Giving

Templated content across department sites

Enhancing taxonomy/vocabularies for more robust content management