I’m Still Surviving
2020
Nonprofit group project
I’m Still Surviving is a living women’s history of HIV/AIDS. The digital exhibition brings together hundreds of excerpts from oral-history narratives by 39 women across New York, Illinois, and North Carolina.
Information Architecture
UX Design
Web Design
Oral history
Digital public history
Goals

The project set out to make public history participatory, center the voices of women living with HIV, and convert a large archive into an accessible digital exhibition.
Audio and quotations from the women are the core of the experience. The exhibition lets participants speak directly rather than appearing only as anonymous medical subjects or statistics.

Information Architecture

The team organized the exhibition around two questions: how visitors learn the history and what the history is about. People can navigate by media through SEE, HEAR, and READ, or explore recurring themes such as family dynamics and health care.
The journey also begins outside the website. Posters and QR codes introduce a local story, then lead visitors into related material before they explore the broader archive.


Content System


A Webflow content management system stores oral histories in one place and connects each narrative to people, media types, topics, and historical frames. This structure lets the team update the archive while generating consistent pages and cross-references automatically.
Prototype

The wireframe translated the three-layer information architecture into an interaction model that helps visitors move between stories, themes, and media without losing context.

The working prototype was built in Webflow and tested through the final content structure, page flow, and scroll interactions.
Launch

The final site presents oral-history excerpts through historical frames that visitors can see, hear, and read. The project was subsequently featured by WTTW’s Chicago Tonight.