Launching A Platform

Shornokishoree Bangladesh


Completed In: 2020

Objective

Showcase the organization’s partnerships, collaborations, and success stories to establish credibility and attract potential partners, sponsors, and volunteers who share a similar mission. Emphasize the importance of collective efforts in empowering adolescent girls and achieving positive outcomes.

Scope of Work

Project Management

Design

Development

Content Development

Server Deployment

Challenges & Approch

Multiple Stakeholders:

    • Diverse Objectives: Different stakeholders, such as the organization’s management, program coordinators, educators, donors, and target audience, may have varying objectives for the website. Balancing these objectives while keeping the website’s primary focus on empowering adolescent girls can be challenging.
    • Conflicting Priorities: Stakeholders may have competing priorities, making it difficult to reach a consensus on design elements, content, and features to be included on the website.
    • Communication: Effective communication with all stakeholders is crucial but can become complicated, especially when dealing with large teams or external partners.

Iterating Over Feedback:

      • Subjective Feedback: Feedback on the website’s design and functionality may be subjective and diverse, making it challenging to prioritize and incorporate changes that align with the project’s goals.
      • Time and Resource Constraints: Continuous iterations based on feedback can consume time and resources, leading to potential delays in the project’s timeline.
      • Scope Creep: Frequent changes based on feedback may lead to scope creep, where the project expands beyond its original scope, impacting the overall project plan.

Making a Responsive Design out of Various Perspectives:

    • Understanding User Needs: Adolescent girls might have different preferences and technological capabilities based on their backgrounds, locations, and access to devices. Designing a responsive website that caters to these diverse needs requires thorough research and user testing.
    • Inclusivity: Ensuring the website’s accessibility for users with disabilities or limited internet access can be complex, but it is essential to create an inclusive experience for all users.
    • Visual Consistency: Integrating various pneumonics (visual aids or symbols representing information) from different sources while maintaining visual consistency can be challenging. The design needs to be coherent and engaging while effectively conveying the required information.

Strategies to Address These Challenges:

  1. Clear Communication: Establish regular and transparent communication channels with all stakeholders to understand their perspectives, share progress, and manage expectations effectively.

  2. Stakeholder Workshops: Conduct workshops or meetings with key stakeholders to align on the project’s objectives, scope, and design direction from the outset.

  3. Prioritization Framework: Develop a prioritization framework to assess and prioritize feedback based on its alignment with the project’s goals and potential impact on the target audience.

  4. Prototyping and Testing: Use iterative prototyping and user testing to gather feedback from the target audience early in the design process, reducing the need for major changes later on.

  5. Responsive Design Principles: Adopt responsive design principles from the outset to ensure that the website adapts seamlessly to various devices and user contexts.

  6. Design System: Create a comprehensive design system that provides guidelines for incorporating different pneumonics while maintaining visual consistency throughout the website.

  7. Agile Project Management: Adopt an agile project management approach to accommodate changes, respond to feedback efficiently, and deliver iterative improvements.

UI/UX

Development

Ease of Use:
WordPress is known for its user-friendly interface, making it accessible to both experienced developers and non-technical users. This is particularly important for a non-profit organization, as it allows their team members to easily manage and update content on the website without requiring extensive technical knowledge.

Theme Setup and Customization:
WordPress offers a vast selection of pre-designed themes, including many that are specifically tailored for non-profit organizations. These themes provide a solid foundation for the website’s design and layout, saving time and effort in the initial setup. Additionally, WordPress allows for easy customization, enabling developers to personalize the theme to match the organization’s branding and unique requirements.

Advanced Custom Fields Plugin:
The Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin is a powerful tool that enhances the flexibility of WordPress by allowing developers to create custom fields and meta boxes within the backend. This feature streamlines the process of developing custom post types, adding various content sections, and organizing data in a structured manner. With ACF, developers can rapidly build complex and dynamic content structures without writing extensive custom code.

Active Community and Support:
WordPress has a massive user community and an extensive ecosystem of plugins and themes, which ensures continuous support and regular updates. This active community provides developers with access to valuable resources, documentation, and troubleshooting assistance, making it easier to address any challenges that may arise during the development process.

Cost-Effectiveness:
WordPress itself is an open-source platform, which means there are no licensing fees for using it. Additionally, many themes and plugins, including Advanced Custom Fields, offer free versions with sufficient functionality, reducing the overall development costs for the non-profit organization.

Scalability:
WordPress is a highly scalable platform, capable of handling websites of various sizes and complexities. This is crucial for the non-profit organization, as it allows the website to grow alongside the organization’s expanding needs and reach.

SEO-Friendly:
WordPress is designed with SEO (Search Engine Optimization) best practices in mind, which can be beneficial for the non-profit organization’s online visibility and discoverability.

Deployment

Environment