Design a Website Architecture and UX Blueprint

We seek a web designer to create structure and design options for our nonprofit website. Our current site serves our minimal needs but is very difficult to edit and update. Our current website is designed with Ucraft and hosted there as well.

The volunteer should assess and incorporate our goals and needs and consider our key audiences. The designer should also assess our technical capabilities. The project's deliverable is a draft of architecture and design concepts that we can easily share with a web developer volunteer or a member of our team who will use the guide to create our new site.

Our work will take place over multiple meetings in six to nine weeks. In our first meeting, the volunteer should interview us about our desired features, our web capabilities, and our technical expertise. Then, they'll synthesize the information into a requirements briefing. We'll engage in various check-ins, where a member or members of our team will provide feedback. The volunteer will audit our current site to create a draft of site architecture and design options including wireframes, site structure, and other visual elements.

Our website is crucial as a way we are presenting our small 501-c3 to the public, and now that we have ambitious plans to grow our annual fundraising through both donations and art sales, it seems imperative to us to have a very professional, engaging web presence.

At the same time, we feel we need a better web hosting platform as the current Ucraft site makes all edits extremely time consuming and design choices are very limited.

We have already thought about and are prepared to brief you about our current website platform, budget restrictions for the build, our branding collaterals and norms, and information about our stakeholder groups and target audiences. We've also compiled some photos and have some language developed that we will share with you and samples of sites we like.