Website design for Awake of Milwaukee
Overview
The goal of this project was to create a modern and calming website for Awake of Milwaukee as they launched their volunteer-based organization.
Awake is a community of Catholics in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee responding to the Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis and working towards the healing and renewal of the Church in their Archdiocese. Given the levity of the topic, it was important that the website to feel professional and calming.
Design Process
Style & Icon Design
In dealing with such a heavy and serious topic, their website needed to feel welcoming and safe. For the color and typography of the website, we needed to find a balance that felt hopeful and positive, yet matched the serious nature of the subject matter. In designing the header logo, I kept it simple with the same font as the headers and an increased letter-spacing:
Content Layout
The key content required for the homepage included:
- Mission statement
- Goals of the group, which included the following headers:
- Listen
- Learn
- Lead
- Clear next steps for users to get involved
After our initial conversation, I mocked up a quick prototype of how we could display this information:
We found a template in WordPress that could emulate a similar layout and account for other features that were important. Additional pages such as “For Survivors” and “For Priests” were added as well.
Final Product
