WellAhead

branding + web design

 
WellAhead_Hero.jpg
 

Empowering a new national initiative to improve youth social and mental wellbeing with a resonating brand and landing page.

 

Client

JW. McConnell Family Foundation

Team

Studio Jay Wall
(contract branding partner)

Project Timeline

4 weeks
(web design + implementation)

My Role

Web Design + Implementation
Marketing Strategy
*I also was their social innovation lab advisor

 
 

initial exploration - ideation session

 
Empathy exercise for our target audience

Empathy exercise for our target audience

Team ideation

Team ideation

Mind mapping

Mind mapping

 

branding creation

 
Initial logo concepts

Initial logo concepts

Matching logos to potential palettes and typefaces

Matching logos to potential palettes and typefaces

Creating document layouts

Creating document layouts

 

visual elements

 
 
We intentionally designed our logo so that it can be easily taken apart to create compelling visual elements for many different formats and purposes. 

We intentionally designed our logo so that it can be easily taken apart to create compelling visual elements for many different formats and purposes. 

 
 

 
 

introductory video

 

website design + implementation

 
 
 
 

Overall information architecture and wireframing

 
 

final website

 
 

mobile view

Mobile fully takes advantage of this layout with easy to flip through content and sections.

large banners + centralised copy

Large banners and a scroll-down interaction works well with the current site due to the short copy under each section. This relieves the user from having to click many buttons just to consume short pieces of information (and wait for load times). 

The choice of centralising the body copy is also to balance out the shortness of each section. However, see below to how I would change this design below. 

 
 
 

 
 

what I would do differently now

 
 

 1.   Website Layout: Due to the shortness of the content, I decided to centralise all body text. This was a lazy and not very elegant solution. If I had more time, I would play around with more sophisticated grids and had a 3-level typographic hierarchy to separate out content better.

2.   Information design: Since many of the concepts of WellAhead is new to most of our audience + target users, I could have also added a few more infographics or icons to illustrate our value better.