WAVES for Development website
We redesigned and developed the website for international charity WAVES for Development.
Last October we took some time out from user experience and travelled to Peru where we volunteered for the surf charity WAVES for Development. We taught both English and IT in the local school and assisted in the surf education programme. We lived with other volunteers in the house of a local family in Lobitos, northern Peru.
As a result of our positive experience we extended our relationship with WAVES beyond the volunteer programme and offered to work with them to improve their presence on the web.
This involved reviewing their existing website presence and recommending a new web strategy, information architecture, look and feel and the technologies behind them. In short we rebuilt the website from the ground up.
We carefully worked with Dave Aabo, one of the key WAVES directors, based in New York to craft a user-centred architecture and create a clear, concise and inspiring user experience.
The new website is built upon the WordPress CMS framework and allows WAVES to update content in different languages. Content creators can even log in to the CMS in their native language, providing the local audiences the tools with which to contribute to the website.
Social media is integral to WAVES and as such has been built into the core functionality of the new website with close integration with Facebook, Flickr, YouTube and Twitter.