Website Redesign
Loaves, Fishes, & Computers (“LFC”) is a nonprofit organization that provides product, assistance, and education of technology to low-income communities. This was a class project for five students, including myself. Their website needed a major redesign to fix various usability issues.
2020
Tools
Problem
LFC’s website was riddled with many usability issues relating to color choice, lack of automated language translation, poor site mapping, and broken links. These had to be resolved and redesign the website to become a platform to enable its main functions of accepting donations, showcasing available low-income purchases, and providing information and accessibility to their literacy programs.
Solution
Beginning with a website usability analysis, we assessed what can be improved in varying importance. We started with a complete redesign of the website’s site map and created wireframes. Through extensive iterations and meetings, we were able to reach a final website that could be managed by an employee at LFC with the guidance of our manual.
Methodology
Improvement analysis
Site Maps (before / after)
High Fidelity Prototype
Challenges
Mid-project in March, our project hit a speed bump with the COVID-19 pandemic. We surpassed this by commencing in weekly Zoom meetings with the client to provide updates on the project in addition to exchanging emails. A personal aesthetic challenge was the color scheme. It was clashing, but that was what the client specifically wanted.
Testimonial
“Thank you for choosing our nonprofit this semester. I feel that I got to know each of you pretty well, and started to notice areas that your team excelled at. I’d like to not just say the website is clean, user-friendly, and aesthetically appealing, it now is able to reach more of the Hispanic community than ever in the past.”
Christian Mendelssohn, Executive Director at LFC
Note: The current live website for this company has since changed, separate from the project mentioned here.
Athena W Designs 