I worked closely with the Web and the Brand & Identity teams to realize the redesign. Backed up by extensive quantitative and qualitative design research the new website brought many improvements, which led to more traffic.
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Examples of the many improvements in the redesign:
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Removal of lots of clutter, such as never-visited pages and duplicate content.
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A focus on top-tasks and a task-based website structure.
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Creating guidelines for navigation interactions and for UI text.
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A complete overhaul of online forms.
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A new navigation structure, with a mega-menu.
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Adding more 'white space', and making the look-and-feel more up-to-date.
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Implementing accessibility guidelines
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Making the website mobile and tablet friendly.
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The redesign process was a long and complicated one. It required collaboration between departments that didn't work together before. There were many hurdles to overcome: No mutual understanding, lack of trust, no shared goals, lack of funding, old technologies, missing processes.
It took 3 years, I am proud of all that we achieved, and grateful for all that I learned.
Design system
At the end of the process I was actively involved in the development of the Design System, creating guidelines,
specifications and content for it.
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I also created a Service Design Handbook for employees. (Sorry this is only in Dutch).
