FactCheckNI is Northern Ireland’s first and only dedicated fact-checking service. They are a team of independent fact checkers who identify important public statements relevant to Northern Ireland, interrogate the best available evidence, and publish fact check articles to improve the quality of public debate.
Wibble were approached by FactCheckNI to completely manage every element of the design and development. Being the sole agency responsible for the redesign, build, launch and management was a huge responsibility.
The previous site was outdated and needed a complete rebuild and redesign. It was difficult to update for the client and navigation issues made content hard to find for users.
Site Speed, responsiveness, and accessibility where all issues that needed to be looked at to make the site fit for purpose and modern throughout.
As Northern Irelands only dedicated fact checking the services the site needed to stand out.
We worked with another UX agency, called Fathom, who supplied basic wireframes for some UX guidance. Wibble were solely responsible for the entire web design and development project from the ground up. We incorporated the use of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) to make the site accessible to all. The client requested a cleaner and easier navigation as this was an issue on the old site. By designing a mega menu that allowed the user to access areas of the site with minimal clicks we achieved this.
Arguably the most exciting aspect of this site is the dark mode which can be enabled using a toggle in the header. This javascript function checks to see if the user has dark mode enabled on their machine, stores it in the Local Storage and renders the respective colour mode. The user can also toggle between the dark and light mode manually which is initiated using Tailwind dark mode classes.
With Wibble being entirely responsible for the design and build of the site, we were able to have 100% of control over every element of the aesthetics, function and usability of the site.
The client requested an AJAX search function which would query posts whilst the user was searching which makes the site more usable and efficient for finding Fact Check posts. This was implemented as part of the hero on the homepage.
At the top of every category page, there is a specific filter which allows the user to select the most popular tags used on the site. This is a special function requested by the client because each page is listing the most popular tags within the individual category.
To maximise the interactivity of the site we are using some lightweight Javascript libraries for the carousel and the wave effect which is animated on page load.
Wibble were thrilled when we got nominated along with the other agency for “Best in Government and Non-Profit” at the Digital Media Awards 2022. We were even more thrilled when we won for all the great work we did together on the FactCheckNI website. Check out our award-winning work below
visit factcheckni.orgThankfully they loved their new website and the service provided by Wibble. And we won an award for this site!
I couldn’t recommend Wibble higher. An excellent, professional web development service who were a pleasure to work with from start to finish. We were really happy with the website they designed and developed for us.
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