NON-PROFIT RESOURCES
Listing of Seattle Non-Profits
Additional Listing of Non-Profits
Non-profit Website Design Examples and Best Practices
Non Profit Website Overview
Objective:
To gain a better understanding of how interactive
media can inform and educate the user. To help the student learn and obtain
more knowledge related to user and multi media experiences. To provide
the student with skillsets of development processes and methods for website
construction to include: content building, image creation, organization and
user interaction.
Project Description:
The student will develop a site that evaluates and effectively presents a non-profit instituion online. The assignment will include an interview with a chosen non-profitl organization assessing their overall mission and charitable work. Students will take feedback from their user to develop a content based information tool as it relates to their non-profit.
Process:
1. Student interviews a non-profit institution.
2. Write design brief
3. Create site-map that organizes content into an effective framework which
supports the project goals and objectives. Address which parts of the content
should be static, animated, and user-interactive.
4. Create navigation, menus, or other wayfinding devices.
5. Make sketches of homepage and sub-pages
6. Develop style guides
that represent processes of wayfinding, grids, color and font selections,
page layouts and image usage
7. Make adjustments according to user-response.
8. Publish final project.
Schedule:
Monday, 4/5
—Begin choosing non-profit organization. Identify who you will interview
Wednesday, 4/28
—Post Design Brief (pdf)
—Post Site Map (pdf)
Monday, 5/3
—Critique 1 (Static ) Home Page (On/Off Navigation)
Wednesday, 5/5
—Critique 2 Revisions to (Static) Home Page (On/Off Navigation)
Monday, 5/10
—Critique 1 (Static) 3 Sub-pages
Wednesday, 5/12
—Critique 2 Revisions to (Static) 3 Sub-pages
Monday, 5/17
—(Posted) —Style Guides
Wednesday, 5/19
—Online Critique 1 - (Posted) Home Page + links
Monday, 5/24
—Online Critique 1 - (Posted) 3 Sub-pages + links
Wednesday, 5/26
—Online Critique 2 - (Posted) Revisions to Home Page and 3 Sub-pages + links
Finals Week
—Individual Appointments
Thursday, 6/10, 1:00pm-3:00pm
—Final Posted Site/Final Presentation of All Work