For a resource website to be successful, it needs to state the website’s mission and audience and allow users to find what they need efficiently. Satisfying these criteria, our objective was to design for clarity in purpose and navigation. To this end, we created a homepage with an emphasis on an intro text section and a sticky navigation system, with items arranged in order of importance, and included an interactive filter for lesson plans.
To appeal to Canadian middle-school and high-school teachers, we drew inspiration from the recently redesigned Teach Nuclear branding, implementing its typographic, size, and colour styles. We integrated geometric-inspired photography, thematically and visually similar to the photography used for the Canadian Nuclear Association, and applied blue and green colour overlays. The site’s user interface (UI) mirrors its clean navigation with easy to read lower-case text, friendly rounded content blocks and a mobile-first layout.
Lesson plan examples
he website houses an interactive filter tool to help teachers navigate the many resources available by allowing them to view lesson plans pertinent to their province, grade, and subject. Each lesson plan is further arranged by grade, length, topic and skills it will help build. Within each lesson plan, teachers are provided with content, a curriculum alignment chart for their province or territory, and supporting documents to help present the lesson to the class. Also on the website is a video section featuring Canadian scientists discussing the impacts nuclear can have on global issues such as climate change and gender pay gaps.
Since the site’s launch, it has proven to be a more compelling online hub, considering improved navigation and professional delivery of information, as well as its ability to tie in with the Canadian Nuclear Association brand.