Having finished its 19th season this fall, the w3 Awards received thousands of entries globally from Advertising agencies, PR Firms, Digital Agencies, In-house creative professionals, Web Designers, and Graphic Designers. This year, Clarity Partners received an award for the redesign of the Chicago Board of Elections’ website, as well as two awards for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs – Blue Marble website.
Winning Projects
The Chicago Board of Elections (CBOE) – Website Redesign and Replatform
The Board of Election Commissioners for the City of Chicago (CBOE) is a government entity responsible for conducting all elections in Chicago and administering a transparent, impartial and accurate election system. The three members of CBOE are appointed by the Cook County Circuit Court to three-year terms.
Chicago Board of Elections (CBOE) was looking to create a new website that would improve voter education, engagement, and accessibility. Clarity replatformed the CBOE site to Drupal and performed the following improvements to this site: more responsive webpages, ADA compliant webpages, a “Your Voter Information” tool, a “Vote by Mail” online application, and an Election Results tool.
Clarity improved the site’s search functionality, language accessibility and translations, access to social media outlets, and common browser functionality & compatibility while giving them the ability to do web traffic analytics reports and adding third party integrations.
The new site analytics allow CBOE to understand in real-time how the site is performing for voters related to each election that takes place.
Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ Blue Marble – Website Design & Development
Founded in 1922, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs (CCGA) is a nonpartisan, non-profit organization dedicated to increasing knowledge and engagement in global affairs. Their in-depth analysis and expert-led research influence policy conversations and inform the insights they share with their growing community. Through accessible content and open dialogue of diverse, fact-based perspectives, CCGA empowers more people to help shape a global future.
CCGA partnered with Clarity to design and develop a new digital presence within their existing primary Drupal website infrastructure. The new presence needed to leverage as much existing functionality as possible while still providing a distinct design and branding that appealed to a younger audience. It was also essential that the site be mobile-friendly; the expectation was that most users would access the site on a mobile device. The new presence would be called Blue Marble.
The structure of the site is based on the sitemap provided by CCGA. This effort included a fully complete, end-to-end website, encompassing planning, design, development, and launch. In addition to Clarity delivering a site with all of the aforementioned requirements, Blue Marble is robust, secure, and well-designed, with the ability to enhance it well into the future.
W3 Awards and Judging
Winning entries for The W3 Awards are selected by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts. The AIVA is a membership-based organization of leading professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts dedicated to embracing progress and the evolving nature of traditional and interactive media. Website entries are judged on the following factors: creativity, usability, navigation, functionality, visual design, and ease of use.
To learn more about the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts, please visit aiva.org.
About Clarity Partners
Clarity Partners is a Chicago-based, full-service management and information technology consulting firm that specializes in delivering comprehensive solutions to complex public sector and non-profit challenges. We provide management consulting, enterprise performance management, application development, website design and development, cloud solutions, project management, and IT staffing services to a diverse mix of businesses across the full spectrum of industries.
See more about Clarity’s accolades for culture, workplace, and project work on our Awards page.