New website for International Labour Organization, ILO (United Nations), Geneva, Switzerland< Back to Projects | Next project >
The International Labour Organization is a UN specialized agency which seeks the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights. I worked for the ILO to restructure and redesign their website, from re-engineering the content generation process and information architecture, to interaction and visual design. Workshop, requirements I took part in leading both contractors, in-house designers, developers and editors through a series of initial workshops to outline the requirements based on internal user research and a defined set of personas, primarily conducted at the ILO in Geneva. 17 different passports and 10 different languages were spoken on the core team. I facilitated this group in intensive brainstorming for three solid, focused days. Interaction Design Leading a team of interaction designers at my office in Copenhagen, we worked in close collaboration with developers at ILO in Geneva to ensure implementation. Prototypes and wireframes were made based on the findings from the workshop in Geneva. Interactions and functionality were defined and results were presented and approved. Visual Design and Style Manual From the existing design manual for printed matters, visual design for the website was made to fit interaction and functionality needs; video, search boxes and calendars were custom made to meed requirements. I lead a team of visual designers to make the final visual design elements ready for implementation and to produce an online manual, that could keep future designers and developers on the track without rigid constraints. In later iterations, it is clear the designers and developers have reworked the design, in particular the visual appearance of the navigation. But in most of the essential parts, the website remains as it was intended. OUTCOME: The project provided ILO with a new Content Strategy and directions for writing, improved Information Architecture made both current content and archives more pervasive, and renewed templates and visual design enforced and supported the structural changes . SKILLS IN ACTION:
www.ilo.org Reference: Kiran Mehra-Kerpelman, Director, United Nations Information Centre, New Delhi, India. E-mail: [email protected] |