The Children’s Haven

Visual Design: Redesign the Website for The Children’s Haven in Canton, GA, U.S.A.

Project was completed on October 4, 2020 within 48 hours

 

Live link: https://cherokeechildrenshaven.org/

About

I had an amazing experience to redesign the website for The Children’s Haven, a non-profit in Canton, U.S.A in #48in48 hours event.

The program was sponsored by IBM and other partners.

The Problems

The current website needed treatments in terms of layout, overall visual design consistency. The non profit also wanted a new navigation system.

While auditing the website, we noted the accessibility issues with images laid over text and too low color contrast between the text and the background.

 

My Role

I worked as UX Advisor/ Visual Designer for the project.

Other members of the team are developers, content specialist and our Project Manager. 

Software

THE PROCESS

Review of the current website 

Information Architecture- Wireframe- Visual design

Build the website by WordPress

Pass QA REview  Website go live!

PRODUCT REVIEW

 

Review of the current design

I worked on various resources and data provided by the non profits, including style guide, their competitors, their images and requirements.

I also discussed about the new navigation and layout for the landing page. 

 

This is a review of the website’s look and feel before our work

DeSIGN

Site map- wireframes

I started to build the new site map and wireframes of the website, then redesigned the UI of landing page, volunteer pages.

Visual design

Some shots of the landing page and volunteer page I designed for the team

Landing page ( Old version)

Landing page  ( New version)

Subpage: Volunteer( Old version)

Subpage: Volunteer(New version)

BUILD THE WEBSITE IN WORDPRESS

 

Building the Website in WordPress 

Throughout the process, I helped to advise the navigation to other pages, and finally audited the overall visual design of the website.

I also helped to adjust typography and color from the backend of the website. 

 

QA Review and Approval

The final website successfully went live after Quality Assurance Team’s approval. The navigation was revised according to the Non profit’s request. The Non profit is happy with our final work.

REFLECTION

Due to short time of 48 hours, we could not do User Research and Usability test. We could just built the page as the non profit’s request and apply interaction design’s principles in our process.

We would have applied User Research and Usability test to ensure the user experience of the product.

Also, Beaver Builder’s functions are limited, not flexible as Elementor so our team had difficulties to follow my final UI design.

The new website went live at: https://www.casacherokee.org/