Friends of Ibba Girls School is a small UK charity helping the local community build and develop a residential school for girls aged 10 - 18 from Amadi, Gbudwi and Maridi states of South Sudan.
The brief was to reinvent the charity's website - making it more engaging and user friendly to encourage more donations than ever before as the school continues to grow.
The problem
Donors and volunteers found it difficult to navigate through the very old wordy website and had no facility to receive donations/gifts online - unless it was via standing order which donors had to print off from the website and take it to the bank. It became apparent that the donors and volunteers wanted the site that is visually engaging, easy to navigate and donate online.
The process
Firstly, I set out and created rough sketches then low fidelity wireframes that exposed how the website works and it’s functionalities. We wanted the website to look different and more visual. We wanted the site to be engaging, the information to be easy accessible including the donation section.
After research and user testing with volunteers using high-fidelity wireframes we expanded the homepage to a long scrolling format to break up the more detailed information about the charity. Once completed I prototyped and animated the wireframes using Adobe XD and After Effect to gather feedback from the stakeholders before tweaking and finalising the final version for the developer.
After research and user testing with volunteers using high-fidelity wireframes we expanded the homepage to a long scrolling format to break up the more detailed information about the charity. Once completed I prototyped and animated the wireframes using Adobe XD and After Effect to gather feedback from the stakeholders before tweaking and finalising the final version for the developer.
The solution
The website has been an important and viral tool for the charity, which has enabled them to positively raise more money to admit 80+ more young girls into the school.
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