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AMSTERDAM.NL

While leading the UX Lab at the municipality of Amsterdam my team and I redesigned the website. The redesign involved a visual overhaul as well as many interaction and content design changes. 

The old design

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The new design

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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:

  • Removal of lots of clutter, such as never-visited pages and duplicate content. 

  • A focus on top-tasks and a task-based website structure.

  • Creating guidelines for navigation interactions and for UI text.

  • A complete overhaul of online forms.

  • A new navigation structure, with a mega-menu.

  • Adding more 'white space', and making the look-and-feel more up-to-date.

  • Implementing accessibility guidelines

  • 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).  

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