Redesign of the SRI Website
The Project
The SRI team was looking to renew their website to present the coalition in a more clear manner, improve the user experience to promote navigation of the website and position SRI’s website as a reliable source of Human Rights information.
Other goals were to translate the website to Spanish, French and Russian, and to comply with accessibility standards.
Our Approach
We suggested a visitor-centric communication strategy: a site that supports the visitor’s goals, is conceived from their perspective and caters to their needs.
While this might seem obvious, it is frequently the case that a site is conceived as a description of the organization and its offerings, rather than being a response to How can we help you?
The Solution
In order to achieve the goals, we focused on:
- A well crafted information architecture to make the site structure is easy to understand for all audiences
- Clean, open design that promotes easy scanning and readability
- Component-based architecture for page flexibility
- Graphics and illustration to support content, provide visual cues and information, and make the visitor experience pleasant
Finding the Coalition's Voice
Finding a way to present a global coalition of organizations was a particular challenge of this project. To achieve it, we had brainstorming sessions with each of the members with the goal of discovering the style and personality that best reflected the group.
In the end, we landed on an eclectic visual style, derived from images taken from textiles and pottery from all the places where the SRI is present. We made a collection of images that represented each country, and mixed them creatively to produce the visual style for the coalition. For the color palette, we used colors of the members logos.
Through that process, we achieved a style for the SRI that reflects its diverse and collaborative nature, and presents it as a human, warm, radical, rebellious and professional coalition.
Matrushka has proven to be a reliable and effective partner, available and responsive to our requests and consistently meeting project commitments and deadlines. The team has shown a real understanding and support of client-driven processes, including for consultation and feedback processes requiring consensus from several clients or partners. Matrushka has also demonstrated excellent technical expertise, problem solving and workarounds and a keen ability to put these at the service of the project’s intended audiences and objectives. Finally, Matrushka has always actively demonstrated a deep respect for our work and the intersectional feminist values and principles we hold and applied these to the work they have done for us.
- Carrie Shelver
Manager of Geneva Office