I reduced unnecessary content so that I would improve carbon footprint and speed of the website by not adding a load of text, images or pages but still adding all the content that I needed to include to make my website the best it could be. I also avoided gendered language to make my website… Continue reading Ethical and sustainable design commentary
Category: Digital Marketing Design
Intro to remind the user of the project concept and goals
For my project, I am creating a website prototype for The Participatory Collective, who are an organisation that want people to come together from the ideas fund and other projects based in Hull so that they can build movement to be able to shift power to enable communities to flourish and grow together.
Outline of my objectives for the upcoming campaign
My objectives for the upcoming campaign and digital platform consist of creating a fully functional website that includes the participatory collectives’ mission, values, and vision. I am also going to include user engagement into my website, and make sure that it is suitable for those with accessibility needs. I am also going to add stakeholders… Continue reading Outline of my objectives for the upcoming campaign
Reflections on storytelling
In my web design, I want to start with explaining the purpose/main idea of the website, which is to promote the participatory collective and what they do/are trying to achieve. To explain this, I want to include a video near the top of the design so that the user will be able to see instantly… Continue reading Reflections on storytelling
Logo explorations
This is the first logo idea I had. I wanted it to represent love, peace, and hope as the participatory collectives’ mission is to bring everyone together to create better lives. I thought choosing a hand with a rainbow was the best way to represent this. This is the second logo I designed. I made… Continue reading Logo explorations
Design inspirations
Layout: This is one of the layouts I decided on to use for the website. The box at the top is for the title/header, next box is for a video with text over the video, the next box is for stakeholder/employee profiles, the next box is for text containing information about the organisation, and the… Continue reading Design inspirations
Participating organisations
Participatory Scotland: Inspiring Scotland wants to work with other funders and/or other organisations to be able to support the participatory arts projects for wellbeing within the community across Scotland. They also want to find out how to fund participating arts projects most effectively, how to lobby the government to get them to see the importance… Continue reading Participating organisations
Telling the story of the Participatory Collective
The participatory collective is an organisation who are facing local and global issues of social injustice in society. They want everyone to come together to create change to allow people to live fulfilling and flourishing lives. However, they don’t have the funding for this to happen, so funding has to come from elsewhere, such as… Continue reading Telling the story of the Participatory Collective