New website and new approach for ActionAid
Strategy, design and build for a new website
What needed doing
ActionAid International needed a new website. The purpose of the global secretariat website needed clarifying. ActionAid country offices around the world needed an effective, and easy-to-use website platform, and guidance to create great websites themselves. The ActionAid brand needed modernising. Their content needed to be better, more recognisably ActionAid, and more consistent.
How we did this
We pulled together a dream team of agile Drupal developers from Agile Collective, a graphic designer and brand expert from Big Fan, and a digital strategist and a content strategist from Contentious.
We worked with this team for eight months in agile sprints to build a new website and platform for the global secretariat and 30 international ActionAid offices.
Contentious led on the strategy and the content strategy. We ran virtual and real-world workshops with stakeholders around the world.
We created a vision, a core content strategy, design and content principles, personas, brand personality traits, a content model, an information architecture, an online voice, tone and style guide, exemplar content, an editorial checklist and wireframes.
We edited the top-level content and wrote the microcopy.