Social Innovation + Change Initiative at Harvard

Desktop and mobile screen shots of SICI's homepage, with the big tagline "Social change­makers see the world as it is now and imagine what it could be. What’s in between, that’s the work."

SICI, at The Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership, wanted a fresh, unique new WordPress site with a design that would be distinctive in the social innovation space. SICI, DevCollab, and Pentagram collaborated to create a new information architecture, and bring their new messaging and aesthetics to life, prioritizing web accessibility throughout the project.

sici.hks.harvard.edu

The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

Eric Carle homepage featuring an illustration of a child smilin, kneeling on a beach holding seashells up as gulls fly overhead

The Carle Museum needed a mobile-friendly, modern site that better matches the unique experience of visiting the museum itself. DevCollab worked with the Carle team and Theory One Design to make a user-friendly site while putting the museum's wonderful art and distinctive aesthetic front-and-center. 

CarleMuseum.org

Rockefeller Brothers Fund

A crowd of protesters from diverse backgrounds holding signs, text beneath says "advancing social change for a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world"

In concert with a major Drupal upgrade, RBF needed to freshen up their website to match their updated visual brand. In their rebuild, we focused on streamlining their navigation while prioritizing accessibility. We designed a new homepage to highlight their programs and newly-renovated performing arts center. We also integrated their site with the GivingData Grants Management System API, to enable easy publication of grant and grantee information. 

RBF.org

The Media Manipulation Casebook

"The Media Manipulation Casebook is a digital research platform linking together theory, methods, and practice for mapping media manipulation and disinformation campaigns"

We partnered with the Harvard Kennedy Shorenstein Center TaSC team to create this Drupal 8 website, a searchable database of their unique research on detecting, documenting, and debunking media manipulation and disinformation campaigns. 

MediaManipulation.org

Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University

Homepage: Advancing scholarship in all fields of China Studies

We helped Fairbank to redesign and rebuild their old WordPress site to put more focus on their people and events while preserving accessibility. 

fairbank.fas.harvard.edu

Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Article headline: "Russia’s Health Care System, Demographics Present Unique Advantages, Disadvantages in Fighting COVID-19" next to photo of Russian nesting dolls with handmade tiny pandemic facemasks on their faces

The Harvard University Davis Center has an invaluable archive of beautiful images, along with cutting-edge scholarship on the Russian and Eurasian regions, but it had an outdated, fixed-width site. We partnered with Davis to build a new Drupal 8 site with a modern, mobile-friendly design, and created flexible components for their "Insight" content type to show off their rich content and imagery.

DavisCenter.fas.Harvard.edu

The Journalist's Resource

The Journalist's Resource homepage on desktop and phone

The Journalist's Resource was ready to publish more frequently and develop new types of articles, and they wanted an updated look for their site and brand.  DevCollab led the JR editorial team through workshops to develop simpler navigation, worked with Kayla Jones to create an updated brand and logo, and built out the new brand into a complete web design in a fresh WordPress site.

JournalistsResource.org

Crushing the Curve

Text says "Take care of yourself" next to image of person of Asian descent with purple hair and a black face mask

Crushing the Curve is a California-based campaign that helps young adults stay safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on mental health. The DevCollab team built this WordPress site in rapid response to the crisis. The site was designed via an in-browser process, with modifications made to a premium theme based on initial branding by Kayla Jones. The design is periodically updated based on ongoing youth feedback.

crushingthecurve.me