Website Design Blueprint and User Experience Strategy (Wix)

We seek a web designer to create structure and design options for our nonprofit website. Wix. 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 6-9 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.

Seven Hillz Productions Foundation exists to inspire aspiring filmmakers by opening doors to film, TV, and digital media careers that have historically been hard to access. We do this through scholarships, apprenticeships, vocational training, and signature events like the ReelBack Film Summit.

Our website is often the very first connection a student, sponsor, or industry partner has with our organization. Right now, performance and usability issues are getting in the way of that first impression — and worse, they may be quietly turning away the very people we exist to serve: a busy student trying to apply for a scholarship on their phone between classes, a potential donor trying to understand our impact before giving, or an industry professional looking to volunteer their time at our next summit.

A volunteer who takes on this audit and optimization project will help us remove those barriers. By improving load times, navigation, and overall user experience, you'll make it easier for students to find and apply for life-changing scholarship and apprenticeship opportunities, easier for sponsors and partners to engage with our mission, and easier for our small team to focus on programming instead of fighting with a clunky website. In short, you'll be helping more aspiring filmmakers find their way in the door.

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.