Brief
Brief
The Net Zero Regulation and Policy Hub is a research initiative based at the University of Oxford. Launched in October 2023, the Hub is a collaboration between the Blavatnik School of Government and the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme, and part of the Oxford Net Zero strategic cluster.
The Hub approached Enovate with an ambitious project brief coupled with a tight schedule, with a fixed duration of 15 weeks to align with the COP29 climate event in November 2024.
The brief required the design of a full suite of branding materials for the Hub - logo, typography, colour palette, brand guidelines, Powerpoint and Word document templates - along with a new Craft CMS website and a bespoke Laravel app that integrated with the Qualtrics platform for the site's data and visualisations.
What we did
What we did
Before we could start building the bulk of the site we needed to create the brand and then the page template designs so the project got underway with a discovery phase which included a full-day branding workshop at the client's offices at the Blavatnik School of Government in Oxford.
We started the design by defining the colour palette and the approach to typography so that these elements could inform the design of the logo. The logo started out as a series of hand drawn sketches allowing us to quickly put ideas onto paper and get feedback from the client. As the logo evolved we created a number of versions before settling on a final version and creating variants for different scenarios.
With the branding complete we moved onto the page template designs - starting with content elements and wireframes before moving onto the creation of hi-fidelity template designs. The client was involved throughout, providing their input and feedback into the direction of the design to ensure it was a collaborative process.
Whilst this work was in progress the front-end team were underway with translating approved page template designs into working web pages in Craft CMS and the back-end team were busy on the Laravel side, building the integration between the app and Qualtrics to import the data stored by the various completed surveys and translate it into visualisations and tables to display on the various jurisdiction pages.
The project was quite a challenge but was completed and launched on time, much to the delight of the client.
