Opportunity Lake County | Website. October 2021

Opportunity Lake County is a community organization focused on developing the future workforce in Lake County through education, training, and career advancement. They are a sub-brand of Jobs Ohio. Along with a new brand they needed a new website to promote themselves. The goal being to grow the workforce in Lake County with young professionals potentially looking to move to the region, to see what features and amenities are available.

Personas

With people at the forefront of their mission, we developed a list of personas and their goals to center the website content and structure around. These personas would be looking to perform certain tasks when visiting the website.

Opportunity Lake County Website, Personas. Who do we want to visit the website? local business owners, young professionals, community members, human resources professionals, parents/caregivers, community stakeholders. What they want, experience, connections, affordability, outdoor recreation, choices, diversity and inclusion.

Opportunity Lake County Website, task to be done. Visitors come to the websites to complete tasks, here's what we believe they want to accomplish: Discover neighborhoods, connect to community, find educational opportunities, find a home, discover career opportunities, what to do in Lake County.

Purpose Statement

The brand statement was written as the brand’s purpose with three main pillars, connect, create, and captivate, all relating back to the target audience and the goals for the project in some way.

Opportunity Lake County Branding, Purpose, Connect, connect workers with training and employment opportunities to fill high paying, in-demand jobs of today. Create, create opportunities for businesses to recruit local talent and for the community to become aware of local opportunities. Captivate, captivate a diverse population to Lake County to live, work, and play here. Make Lake County visible as a source of opportunities for current and future residents, and businesses.

Wireframes

The wireframes for this project were very traditional, for desktop and mobile. Even at this phase we were thinking about the design system that would be used with repeating components.

Opportunity Lake County Website, wireframes of all pages.

Final Designs

The final designs really come to life with the final branding applied, as well as the color system for the different industries. The script font creates a really unique, eye-catching element for the headers.

Opportunity Lake County Website, final design of all pages.
Opportunity Lake County Website, mock-up of lifestyle page, main navigation, life on the lake text and Fairport Beach photo.