Designing and Building a Repository of Disaster Response Resources with the World Bank
Elevating knowledge through engaging UX design and data visualization
As part of an ongoing collaborative relationship, Graphicacy worked with our partners The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), which is housed at the World Bank, wanted to redesign their Drupal website with a focus on refreshing the homepage and creating a new hub for their disaster recovery resources.
The design objectives were to holistically bring the site together — in terms of design, functionality and navigation — from what was a fragmented web presence to showcase more of GFDRR’s rich content offerings, and create a more robust central search function that makes it easier for users within the Bank, and externally, to pinpoint and access desired knowledge and resources.
In order to bring the wealth of disaster recovery data and resources to the fore-front of the site, Graphicacy proposed the combination of two site sections (Resources and Publications) and rebranded them as a more accessible and central Knowledge Hub, so that users would be clearly directed to a single core content destination.
The result of Graphicacy’s partnership with the GFDRR team was a more visually dynamic site, more intuitive and performant navigation and functionality, a better overview of GFDRR’s full organizational structure and offerings, and a powerful new search capability with detailed filtering options that made GFDRR’s rich knowledge offerings more visible and accessible. Each of these upgrades was built to create a better user experience in service of GFDRR’s mission to support disaster risk management projects worldwide.
Graphicacy partners with clients to tell engaging stories with data. Graphicacy’s team combines storytelling, thoughtful human-centered design and deep technical capabilities to build and deploy strategic, data rich digital projects. Graphicacy’s team has created data visualizations and infographics for top-tier organizations and companies, domestically and internationally, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Johns Hopkins University the Center for American Progress, the AFL-CIO, the Anti-Defamation League and many others.
