In December, two Clarity web projects received multiple 2024 Horizon Interactive Awards, an international competition highlighting the “best of the best” in interactive media production.
Winning Projects
Chicago Board of Elections (CBOE)
Website Redesign & Replatform: Government Agency & Politics categories
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.
We also improved the site’s search functionality, language accessibility, including 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.
Regional Transportation Authority Mapping and Statistics (RTAMS)
Website Replatform: Government Agency & Travel & Tourism categories
The RTA’s Mapping and Statistics (RTAMS) platform is a powerful data warehouse and interactive mapping tool that can be used by planners, consultants, elected officials, and riders to analyze and visualize transit information. RTAMS was created in 2001, before internet‐based data sets and mapping systems were common, and has evolved into a nationally‐recognized transit data warehouse for planning and financial information. In February of 2018, the RTA launched a project to bring the RTAMS platform in line with modern-day data visualization and automation tools. Clarity Partners was retained to support the RTA staff and conduct a system review, implement key enhancements, and system hosting and support.
The RTA’s goals included:
- Increase usefulness of RTAMS.org allowing for key user groups do their jobs more effectively;
- Improve the efficiency of RTAMS data entry and maintenance processes;
- Strengthen the adaptability of the RTAMS.org website to accommodate planned enhancements and unknown future changes.
Clarity achieved these goals using the DKAN framework, based on the Drupal CMS platform, integrated with API services connecting ArcGIS data.
See our entire list of workplace, culture and project accolades on our Awards page.
About Horizon Interactive Awards
The Horizon Interactive Awards, now in its 23rd year, has become one of the most prestigious awards in the field of interactive, web design and creative media. The competition recognizes, promotes and awards the best web sites and web site design, interactive, videos, online advertising, print media and mobile applications. Each year, the Horizon Interactive Awards receives many entries from all over the world and a volunteer panel of industry professionals, from diverse multi-media, graphic design, advertising and marketing backgrounds, review the entries to determine the work that is to be recognized.
Over the past 23 seasons, the Horizon Interactive Awards has received tens of thousands of entries from nearly all 50 states in the USA and over 40 other countries worldwide. For more information, visit the Horizon Interactive Awards online: www.horizoninteractiveawards.com.
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 higher education, public sector, and commercial sector 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.