Woodleigh School.
With three campuses across the Mornington Peninsula, Woodleigh School is one of Melbourne’s most prestigious private education providers. Woodleigh School's marketing team engaged and entrusted Spicy Web to design and build a new website that embodies their unique principles of progressive and creative education.
Industries
- Education
Services
- Website Design
- Website Development
Our first meeting with Spicy Web made it clear that they are obviously experienced when it comes to building sophisitcated websites, but their solid understanding of the nuances of our school and how we wanted to address them, set them apart.
Project Background
With a focus on a progressive and creative education environment, the challenge for the Woodleigh School website was to present an engaging, dynamic, and truly unique digital flagship experience, while balancing the more practical day-to-day needs of a school’s website.
Project Goals:
- Modernise the Design: Design a creative, unique, and innovative website that aligns with the school's brand and values.
- Enhance User Experience: Improve site navigation and usability to make information easily accessible to prospective students, parents, and the community.
- Showcase School Life: Develop a platform that effectively highlights the school's diverse programs, events, and achievements.
- Mobile Optimisation: Ensure the site is fully responsive and provides an optimal experience across all devices.
- Streamline Content Management: Implement a user-friendly CMS to enable easy content updates by school staff.
Design Solution
The outcome is a design-led experience, packed with engaging imagery, dynamic layout and animation, and colourful micro-experiences.
The website contains endless instances of engaging illustration and animation — we affectionately refer to them as ‘microdoses of joy’. Working with renowned Melbourne-based illustrator Carla McRae, we developed a set of animated illustrations that represent the key stages of education through the Woodleigh School system. These illustrations have been creatively integrated into the website design, ensuring a seamless and intuitive user experience.
Project Outcome
The outcome of this project is a user experience that truly pushes the boundaries of what a school website is expected to be. Like Woodleigh School, the new website is one of its kind in its field.
