Bringing heart to a charity that supports people with learning difficulties and autism.

Company
UnitedUs

Duration
4 months (2012)

Role
Digital Designer

Skills
Web Design, Interaction Design, Research, Information Architecture

Tools
Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, Photography

Background

FitzRoy transforms lives every day, supporting people with learning disabilities to do the simple things that make a real difference in their everyday life. Their vision is a society where people are treated as equals, regardless of their disability. Their mission is to transform lives by supporting people with learning disabilities to lead the lives they choose.

Challenge

Having worked with FitzRoy for a number of years, reworking their brand and ensuring consistency across their campaigns and communications, we were asked to redesign their website.

Research & Production

To ensure the site was accessible specifically for users with autism, the site structure was simple and had consistent banded layouts. We used simple block colours and plain language throughout the site and where possible, made buttons labels descriptive.

And for those with physical and motor disabilities it was important to ensure that any actions had large clickable areas, form fields were given plenty of padding, and that the forms themselves were simple to navigate.

We took hard drives loaded with local copies of the site to the FitzRoy Newhaven to test how the site would perform in their Computer Room. Here we were able to observe and document the usability of the site in an environment we could never recreate within the studio.