Our Recent Projects
Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
Challenges
CRITFC is an enormously impactful organization in the Pacific Northwest, but the scope of their work was difficult to understand via their cumbersome, static, 12-year-old website. Additionally, the old website did not adequately serve the broad range of audiences in fish and watershed science, policy-making, the media, educators, traditional tribal fishers, and the public.
Solutions
Blue Mouse Monkey restructured the website to reflect the four pillars of CRITFC’s mission. This involved bringing to the front many aspects of the site that had previously been buried. The new WordPress CMS enables . . . read more about CRITFC »
Upstream Public Health
Challenges
Upstream Public Health is an Oregon non-profit that researches innovative public health solutions and moves them into the mainstream dialogue, providing expertise in regional policy and decision-making. Upstream's old website obscured the impact of their work. They needed a distinctive platform to frame issues, provide timely information to their audiences, and express the values and upbeat personality of the organization.
Solutions
An in-depth analysis and overhaul of the website's information architecture led to user-friendly design decisions that helped highlight the work and issues important to Upstream . . . read more about Upstream Public Health »
YourEconomy.org
Challenges
Your Economy, a project of the Edward Lowe Foundation, is an interactive resource center designed for users to explore and analyze economic activity in their own regions and nationwide. YE houses more economic data than the U.S. census bureau. However, the existing website was so complex and confusing that the YE managers were compelled to manage a continuous flow of queries about usability.
Solutions
Blue Mouse Monkey redesigned the YE website to be user-friendly to a wide range of audiences, including the White House, governors, industry analysts, development experts, and the media. An intensive audit of processes . . . read more about YourEconomy.org »
Scott Sparling, author
Challenges
Scott Sparling is a Portland writer and author of the acclaimed novel Wire to Wire. Scott came to Blue Mouse Monkey for an exceptional and innovative design solution to showcase his edgy novel. Many author websites are lackluster affairs, and Scott didn't want his to end up like that. It was crucial that the site design parallel the train-hopping, sex-and-drugs atmosphere of his book, making a visit to the website an experience of the flavor of Wire to Wire.
Solutions
Blue Mouse Monkey combined large-scale imagery with interactive quotes, image galleries, song lists, and other content that pulls you into the world of the book. Each page of the . . . read more about Scott Sparling »
Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium
Challenges
OTREC’s audiences include transportation researchers and planners, transportation and planning students, transportation agencies and industries, the media, and RITA, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s research administration. With such a wide range of audiences and a perpetually growing pool of news and information, OTREC needed a site that made it easy for users to find specific information, but also to make connections between all the information available in the OTREC site.
Solutions
To help OTREC communicate to its many audiences, Blue Mouse Monkey . . . read more about OTREC »
Blue Mouse Monkey
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