Plan is one of the oldest and largest international development agencies in the world, working in 49 developing countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas to promote child rights and lift millions of children out of poverty. We were commissioned by Plan in Spring 2008 to develop a new front end for the international website.
The website redesign project was managed by a core team at the international headquarters but involved collaboration with over 30 internal stakeholders from Plan programme areas around the world. Our collaborative methodology allowed us to work with Plan staff from around the globe to define the information architecture for the new site and ensure that the strategic objectives of the redesign were met.
Once the website structure was defined, our iterative creative design process delivered a new look and feel for the site, pushing the Plan brand forward to create a vehicle for effective online communication. The new architecture and design was then built as a prototype which was subject to rigorous usability testing, informing appropriate changes to improve the usability of the end product. The front end design was then implemented on the Plone CMS by Fry IT.
As part of the main redesign project, we also created templates for Plan's national organisations, whose strong focus on fundraising placed very different demands on design. The templates also had to be distinctinctive from the international site, but in line with the same overall brand. Plan Ireland, Plan Spain and Plan Canada have launched using our design, with more to follow soon.
John Maughan - Global Online and Publications ManagerPlan wanted a cleanly designed site, coded to a very high standard. 9web have done an excellent job.
During our time working on the international site, we were also commissioned to design and build microsites for Plan's Learn Without Fear and Universal Birth Registration campaigns. Learn Without Fear was conceived, designed, built and launched in three languages in time for the campaign launch in October 2008 with the new look and feel for the Universal Birth Registration campaign following shortly after the launch of the International site.
We continue to work very closely with Plan providing additional design and development services to enhance the International and selected national fundraising sites.
We are also very pleased to announce that we are now working with Plan to redesign their intranet, the main information resource for 8000 plan staff across 66 countries worldwide. The new intranet will be an intuitive and easy to use one stop shop for resources, information and collaboration. It will be the 'connector' for all staff across Plan - bringing people together in the same environment which can be personalised to their needs, allow them to communuicate with each other and enable them to find and share information effectively.
Anna Wili - Internal Communications Adviser9web recently redesigned our external website and based on the excellent working partnership, we are delighted to have now commissioned them to help us redesign out intranet. Their knowledge of our organisation and their track record in delivering to our requirements makes them an excellent choice.
