Room for Discussion – Floris Jansen

Showing more content with a modern look

Room for Discussion is the interview platform of the University of Amsterdam. They already had a website, but it wasn’t built for the amount of content the committee created. The brief: to build a website to account for the amount interviews they held, including the content around them, like recordings and photo albums.

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Screenshot of a gray, dark red one-page website. — The previous website, where all interviews were listed on one page, together with all other (static) content.

Grayscale wireframe of the frontpage. — Wireframe for the frontpage.

Grayscale wireframe of the search page. — Wireframe for the search page.

Screenshot of the top of the new frontpage with several event cards and a header image. — Design exploration for the homepage.

A website based on an existing branding

Based on an existing visual identity and the goal to present all interviews, guests and (previous) committee members, I built this website.

Screenshot of the page showing the current committee. — The current committee.

Screenshot of the bottom of a page with three event cards. — At the bottom of each page three interviews are shown, to make sure the visitor can always go somewhere.

Screenshot of the search page. — Using the search functionality, multiple kinds of information had to be findable.

Designing and building

The brief was detailed in the wishes and requirements for content and structure, so I only had to adapt the existing style to fit this structure. Then, I worked in several stages towards a finished product, where some features, like search, were launched later than the first version.

See the end result at roomfordiscussion.com