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Design for public participation.

Amphitheatre, the homepage island for nonprofits & institutions

We help people find their way into your organization, whether they are choosing a volunteer role, registering for an event or exploring a public exhibition.

AARP · LEAPx Innovation Lab
2019
DC Public Library
2019 to 2020

Selected work.

  1. Ethel Percy Andrus, AARP’s founder, beside her quote on red: The human contribution is the essential ingredient
    Customer experience campaign
    Frontline app welcome screen on a phone held against a red ground
    Frontline app
    Our Strategy · Story, Simple, Small, Build Fast and Test
    Strategy principles
    Phase 1 · Design Concept + Storytelling
    Phase 1 plan

    AARP LEAPx

    AARP · LEAPx Innovation Lab · 2019

    Five-phase customer-experience program for AARP's LEAPx innovation lab. A redesigned event ecosystem, a new volunteer-experience flow, a customer-experience campaign, and the design system that handed all of it off to CVENT and AARP's internal developers.

    • CX strategy
    • Web design
    • App design
    • Information architecture
    • Design system
    • Design system guidelines
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  2. Visitors reading the exhibition walls and the Marion Barry panels at MLK Memorial Library
    The exhibition, open
    Type scale page from the exhibition guidelines: title lockup, section identifier and body tiers
    Type scale
    A hand pulling a question card from the yellow drawers
    Question cards
    A visitor at the Map Your DC Story touchscreen set into the table
    Map Your DC Story

    MLK Memorial Library

    DC Public Library · 2019 to 2020

    The permanent exhibition on DC protest history inside the only public library Mies van der Rohe designed.

    • Brand identity
    • Exhibition design
    • Typography system
    • Environmental graphics
    • Curatorial partnership
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