Powerful Resources, Healthy Newborns.
Save the Children: Healthy Newborn Network
Category: Health
- What We Did
- Strategy
- Design
- WordPress Development
- Resources Library
- Multilingual Translation
- Interactive Map
- Data Explorer
- Post-Launch Support
Save the Children’s library of maternal and newborn health information can save thousands of mothers and newborns. After a website redesign, these resources are finally searchable, sortable, and easy to access.
Making Knowledge Accessible
Knowledge can save lives — but only if that knowledge is available to those who need it most. The mission of the Healthy Newborn Network is to put live-saving knowledge about childbirth into the hands of those who can use it.
But the organization was saddled with a website that had an architecture and design that made it difficult for users to access the most critical information and data.
As a result, mothers and children suffered unnecessarily.
With the team at HNN, we underwent a 6-month project to reimagine the site, focusing on how to most effectively deliver the information to those who need it.
We built a vigorously searchable resources library, and put a search bar right into the site’s header.
We built an interactive map that lets users explore data by geography.
And we integrated a robust backend database of constantly-updating newborn health statistics through the entire site, so data updates automatically without staff needing to update the site’s pages one-by-one.
Starting with a blank slate, the team from BFC Digital and Healthy Newborn Network undertook a six-month project to execute an architectural, aesthetic, and functional redesign that dramatically improved the website.
Spreading Resources and Data
The site’s newly-redesigned resources library allows users to slice and dice academic, practical, and how-to resources in many ways:
- searching by keyword
- filtering by topic (for instance, “infants,” “infection,” “pneumonia”
- filtering by resource type (for instance, “journal article” or “fact sheet”)
- searching by one of 7 different languages (for instance, “Hindi,” “Nepali,” etc.)
Each resource in the library has a dedicated page that includes things like author, topics, and description — as well as a link to download a PDF of the resource.
The entire resource library has been build to be accessible up to WCAG AA and easily usable on mobile phone and tablets.
And finally, the entire site is easily translatable, using a simple toggle at the top of the page that allows users to flip between English, Spanish, Arabic, and French.
