Consenz
The client: Aaron Porat, social enterpeneur.
The need: Inspired by 2011 social protest,Aaron looked for a better way for online discussion among people and communities.
The solution: Mobile responsive web-app that enables groups, communities, and entrepreneurs to conceive agreement-based documents, in a precise, beneficial, participatory process.
The Customer
Aharon, an international social entrepreneur. During the social movement’s protest of 2011, Aharon was involved in a venture to develop a decision-making app, consensus-based. He took it one step further by leading the technological development of ‘Consenz’.
The Need
Current media platforms are excruciating tools for discussions, making it hard to conclude arguments into a productive, precise process. Furthermore, there’s a lack of ability to document past information in one platform, that could manage and be based on past resolutions which contribute to current decisions.
The Solution
Mobile responsive web-app that enables groups, communities, and entrepreneurs to conceive agreement-based documents, in a precise, beneficial, participatory process.
Quo Vadis
The client:Smadar Tzook, An Artist and Curator.
The need: Preserving art galleries, and making them more accessible, across time and space and for various demographics.
The solution: Smadar has created 360° 3D photographes that map different exhibitions. Sofi developed a virtual reality web application, that allows visitors to explore galleries over a city map, and present information about it.
The Customer
Smadar Tzook is an artist with vast experience in art exhibitions and gallery design. Smadar had dreamed about the project for many years. While creating her MVP she received sponsorship from the “Ariel” company and the Jerusalem Municipality.
The Need
Art exhibitions are replaced quickly, with no ability to re-experience and preserve them once they are done. Smadar wanted to make those exhibitions accessible to a variety of audiences: people who cannot arrive physically to the gallery such as the elderly and people living in the periphery of Israel. An additional request was to document the exhibition, which can facilitate re-living the exhibition, even after it’s been closed. This was a fascinating project, creating an applicable visual language into a 360°, 3D navigational map.
The Solution
Our aim was to generate a live, real tour experience. Creating a virtual reality art tour, one that simulates actively strolling around galleries, cities, and venues. We developed an augmented reality sphere which holds endless mysterious venues that host urban galleries. We created a virtual space that catalogs art galleries within municipalities, allowing an online effortless and aesthetic strolling experience. Our communication with Smadar was ongoing and attentive, and we made sure that all her requests were fully met.
Climb for Justice
Designing and developing a website for Tevel b'Tzedek awareness campaign, serving two purposes Inviting delegations to climb the everest, and raising donations for global aid causes in Nepal and developing countries.
The Customer
Climb for Justice - By Tevel Batzedek An NGO which is active in developing countries, supporting global and social justice along with economic development. Their Nepal program has been successfully active for the last 10 years.
The Need
The Organization led a “Climbing to the Everest” Campaign: inviting the communities and supporters to apply and sign an application for the climbing delegation, as well as to financially support the campaign. The website had 2 main sections: a donations “Call to action” section, and a “signup for trips & climbing challenges” section.
The Solution
The design was inspired by horizontal & vertical lines to symbolize the gap between the socioeconomic status in developing countries vs. the west, in accordance with the organization’s values. The design is meant to be engaging, thus encouraging participation. This is supported using warm joyful colors.
Pathways Negotiation
Designing and developing a website for Pathways Negotiation, an NGO teaching youth peaceful ways for conflict resolution. The website theme focus on the youth, neutral colors and Pathways's triangle motif.
The Customer
Pathways Negotiation advocates for youth to lead conflict management in peaceful methods, using mediation and unique communication skills. The institute is active globally, with a headquarters in Belgium.
The Need
A new website, reflecting the organization’s vision, mindset, and varied activities in Israel. Their request was to create an open dialogue inviting communication between different beneficiaries.
The Solution
The main theme for the website was open-minded negotiation. In doing so we focused on reflecting the youth as a central visual element in the website, using pictures, flexible elements in the design, neutral colors. The unique value of the organization is the triangle, containing 3 essential corners to allow fruitful discourse while teaching English, and for that reason, it was important for us to use this motif as a prominent component in the website’s design.
Kulna Yerushalayim
Kulna is a grassroots initiative, promoting cross-cultural dialogue and organizing open events. Kulna asked us to design a webstie that conveys the essence of Jerusalem, And provide information about the organization, its news and events.
The Customer
From its humble beginning just over a year ago as a grassroots initiative between friends, Kulna Yerushalayim is now a city-wide movement of thousands, transitioning into an active organization of cross-cultural dialogue through open events such as sports tournaments, music events, contests and games. The organization aims to organically engage multinational discussion in a non-formal, fun way.
The Need
We were asked to convey the essence of Jerusalem through the website, accompanied by daily activities, pictures, a calendar with ongoing events, news and updates. We also needed to incorporate a platform for donations.
The Solution
The Oriental design for the website originates from a research tour of our SOFI team whose purpose was to explore the unique history and narrative of Jerusalem. The Design was inspired by the Islamic Alphabet, aesthetics and values, designing a “Jerusalem Journey” within the website sections, a mixture of conservative values with the innovative, vibrant nature of Kulna’s members.
SID Israel
A global organization advocating internation cooperation and networking. SID-Israel came to us with a request for a landing page for an event attended by Israel's President Ruby Rivlin. We've designed and built a mini site, conveying a luxurious feel, providing infromation to international and local audience and a sign up form.
The Customer
Founded in 1957, SID currently boasts over 3,000 members in 80 countries and 45 branches around the world. SID influences development related policy by virtue of its special consultative status in various international organizations, including: UNFPA, UNICEF, ILO, FAO, ECOSOC, UNEP, etc. SID-Israel is an umbrella organization with 130 member organizations. It promotes and advances the study, professional training, capacity building, and local and international networking. It also acts to create an enabling environment for individuals, organizations, and government agencies in Israel to generate the changes needed to advance its agenda.
The Need
We received an ongoing project which was already being designed by a different agency, and were asked to design and develop a new landing / sign up page for the Global Impact Awards event, attended by the Israeli President, Mr. Reuven Rivlin. The event addressed an international as well as local audience. The need was to develop an informative mini-site, sharing information in addition to serving as a platform for attendees’ sign-up.
The Solution
A mini-site which enables registration, as well as an application for the awards’ nominees. The design needed to be luxurious to match the formal nature of the event. Our team had to think on its feet, coming up with new innovative technological solutions which they implemented in the mini-site.
Jerusalem Filmmakers Guild
Designing, UX research and development of a tri-lingual website representing the Guild's spirit of being a local organization of various Jerusalem filmmakers. Including a magazine, that provides news, articles, events, and encourages community participation.
The Customer
The Guild is a professional organization, whose purpose is to strengthen the film and television industries in Jerusalem, through generating cultural activities, creating content and protecting its members’ rights. Their core goal is to strengthen the economy of the industry by steering greater resources into cultural creations.
The Need
We were asked to convey the essence of Jerusalem through the website, accompanied by daily activities, pictures, Branding the guild as the leading organization of its ecosystem, while encouraging a community participatory communication. Launching a “Mediterranean Online Magazine” - a one-stop shop for knowledge creation, news, updates and collaborations in the Cinema world. Creating an accessible knowledge sharing platform in three-languages: Arabic, English, and Hebrew. calendar with ongoing events, news and updates. We also needed to incorporate a platform for donations.
The Solution
In order to address the need, our team researched film making, cinema and movie productions. We spoke and met with opinion leaders and researched the relevant materials in global platforms. The design focused on images and icons and was based on the lively, rich visual language the medium requires, utilizing videos, articles and media galleries as well. The development in three languages had us exploring UX-UI nuances in different cultures.
Ayeka
Ayeka is an holistic integrative psychoanalytic therapy approach developed by Dr. Eitan Lwow, the Ayeka methods helps parents foster a healthy and close connection with their child. Sofi designed a modern, content rich Wordpress website for presenting Ayeka, choosing a mobile responsive WordPress theme and customizing it's design
The Customer
Ayeka is a therapy method applying an integrative holistic psychoanalytic approach, developed by Dr. Eitan Lwow. The method helps parents develop the capabilities that will enable their children to overcome challenges in life. The purpose of the method is to empower parents and guide them to influence the child from a position of close connection, and not in a way of power struggles, punishment and control. The Ayeka method suggests turning parents worry into an opportunity that empowers and grows the child. a way to see its needs and wants without losing the ability to express what's important in their eyes.
The Need
A new and modern website that shows the special values of the organization, and will last for a long period, with maintenance and content uploads. Their request was to create an informative website, designed in a way that is clean, clear professional and warm, with a simple and quick management interface that is easy to operate.
The Solution
We've started the process by choosing a Wordpress theme that will answer best the various needs for the website We settled on the Porto theme, that offers a broad variety of pages and element,s full mobile responsivity and , and many design and customization options. Afterwards, we defined the main navbar and the pages needed for the website. We adjusted the design to give a pleasant and precise feel, including images, fonts and color palette that reflect the values of the organization. We continued with supplying content to the various pages. We've made tests and fixes, and eventually deployed smoothly. The client is satisfied that the site reflects the spirits of the organization and the vision of the unique therapy approach
Open Committee
Open Committee is a project by the NGO Life and Environment for making local planning committees transparent and accessible. Sofi built a web app scraping committee data and providing friendly interface for users to view comment, and suggest objections. A Life and Environment activists gets a summary of the discussion, to bring the issues up in the actual committee.
The Customer
Life and Environment, a rooftop organization for the environmental movement in Israel. Life and Environment's work has influenced the state's policy regarding environmental issues more than once.
The Need
Israel's planning department applies transparency principles in order to allow the citizens to participate in planning processes. However, one who would like to participate has to physically arrive to a committee meeting.
The Solution
Open Committee enables citizens to comment on every construction plan, where they can share their thoughts and objections. When a meeting that discusses that plan takes place, a person on behalf of Life & Environment gets a summary of the discussion and may bring it up in it.
Industrial symbiosis
IMM is a government initiative for industrial symbiosis, turning one factory's waste into another's raw material. Sofi designed and built a landing page presenting the page, Showcasing a design bringing together green, industrial and modern elements. Displaying the information in a clear professional and friendly way.
The Customer
Israel Materials Marketplace project, is an industrial symbiosis initiative of the Industries Administration, in the Ministry of Economy and Industry, in cooperation with the Headquarters for the National Digital Israel Initiative in the Ministry of Social Equality. The prospect of the project is using one factory's waste as another factory's raw material. This mangenon will cause reducing waste and improving waste control, causing less environmental damage, and big economic savings to the factories participating in the initiative.
The Need
Making the project available for parties of interest in a clear and friendly way. In addition- an easy way to contact and join the project.
The Solution
In order for the factories and business owners to find easily the information about the initiative, the decision was building a landing page for the project, that will show the important information in a concise and easy to understand way. The design conveys an environmental, green vision on one hand, and an industrial, economic approach on the other hand.
Ways of peace
The coalition of peace organization in Israel is a forum for advancing Peace NGOs common goals, among them various educational activities for promoting peace. Sofi designed Ways of Peace website, showcasing the different NGOs and their related activities, and providing a way to contact wach NGO. With emphasis of clean and vibrant maplike design with easy navigation.
The Customer
The coalition of peace organizations in Israel is a forum who's aim is to advance common goals to peace organizations, among them are various educational activities for promoting peace.
The Need
The organizations wanted to promote and inform the public about the variety of educational activities provided, in a concentrated and synergetic way, and make a single site from which users could familiarize with each organization and contact them.
The Solution
We chose a minimalistic layout, direct and rich in images, that will allow the user a simple and quick navigation between the different organizations and activity. The user could further delve into each item by scrolling down, when each part can connect to the others.