Members of the Force For Good design team at the 2023 Force For Good Showcase.Â
by Ellie Yamanaka, Volunteer and Outreach Manager
Over the last two years, Birds Connect Seattle has been the recipient of two grants from Force For Good, a JPMorgan Chase program that grants organizations specialized assistance from tech teams to better nonprofit website design and development.
The first phase of our work focused with a design team, focusing on assisting us with redesigning our website to align with our rebranding, optimize our impact, and enhance website accessibility and user experience. This team consisted of web development professionals who helped us conceptualize a new and improved website aesthetic that also fit with our new Birds Connect Seattle identity.
Design mockup from the Force For Good design team.
Members of this New York City based team worked with us over a 6-month period in 2023 and provided us with design focused mockups of an improved Birds Connect Seattle website, including full mockups and wireframe options. These designs were created to be implemented while maintaining the current platform our website is hosted on, and with our organizational needs in mind. Â
Wire frame mock up for the Birds Connect Seattle website from the Force For Good design team.
Upon finishing this 6-month design sequence we were accepted into the implementation program, where we worked with a team of web developers specifically to implement changes identified by the design team. This team worked with us over an 8-month period in 2024, editing and updating our website to improve the accessibility and better the user experience.
Force For Good implementation team at the 2024 Houston showcase event.
Many of the changes are not immediately obvious, however by improving the user experience and accessibility of our website we hope that it makes it easier for our community to access the information they need. During this short timeframe, the implementation team enhanced many of the most commonly accessed pages on our website. As we continue this work of improved accessibility and usability, we hope to make our user experience better for all. Â
Improved accessibility of our website homepage.
 Thank you to the many volunteers on the Force For Good teams that have helped to better our website over the past two years.
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