European Money Market Institute

Translation of new brand identity to online appearance, development of design principles and systems for public website

 

Briefing 

Before the project started a Brussels’ brand agency Hoet&Hoet had helped the European Money Market Institute gone through a rebranding together with a redesign of their visual identity.
It resulted in a fairy limited yet beautifully composed set of assets to start our project with. It was my job to translate the new brand into their online appearance.

 

Starting point

Process

A series of human-centered activities we delivered a foundation to position in the market by the Institute’s administrative role. Reflect integrity along with transparency and offer first-class user experiences for visitors.

The phases Define, Understand, Concept and Produce, guide us to innovate and focus on what’s important for the Institute and its users to stay relevant and future ready.

 

Double Diamond

Define

Responsibility integrated through success measures Users health through positive experiences.

  • A logical and consistent site leads users to minimize the time spent on what they look for.

 

Product vision board

The Institute is accessible and inclusive 

  • The site and content is findable.

  • Equitable and Sustainable goals were included and resonate well with the client, finding tone of the voice and having a low energy website impact by not using videos and by having a minimalistic visuals.

  • Educational role, the content is understandable  to all kinds of audiences.

 

Success measures

Visual Exploration 

Wide explorations, and graphic practises followed with numerous design reviews with the client, the original brand studio and my own team, allowed me to understand the visual identity and its online opportunities.

Challenge

Understand EMMI’s users and build a website that streamlines all processes, ensuring connectivity to future integrations

 
 

Together with the team, consisting out of an interaction designer, a strategist and myself, we conducted a series of workshops of which we defined 3 challenges and 3 goals.

3 Challenges

  1. Certain parties republishes EMMI’s free data as if it’s their own

  2. There’s no clear overview of their target group needs

  3. EMMI’s website isn’t coherent not in content nor navigation and structure.

3 Goals

  1. Controlling the data

  2. Reflect integrity and transparency

  3. Position the institute by making people aware of their role through a smooth UX, accessible and inclusive

Design Principles

The iterating design explorations together with the input we gained from the client and their users formed clear patterns.
I started to write down these findings in a constructive and guiding tone. These would form base for everything yet to be designed, but also would give a good consideration of what has been designed already.

 
 
 
 

Example: Design principle ‘Digestible’

 

Example: Design principle ‘Educational’

 

Design System

Even-though it was a short-scoped project, I was convinced that working towards a worthy design system would be beneficial.

This project with its specific ask to focus on becoming futureproof, as well as working together with an offshore content and dev team, asked for a different approach than custom pages.

3 sorts of template-pages where defined.
- Home page (stand alone)
- Detail pages (General and benchmark)
- Utility page

Defining each atom, component and pagetype and the behaviours and states of each, would eventually create a comprehensive common understanding of the design across all teams.

 
 
 

 Result

The result was well received by the client.
The website is live today.

 

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