Case Study

Redesigning Irish Parliament's web presence

Creating a modern, accessible web experience for a vast parliamentary information system.

Oireachtas.ie needed to serve the public, government workers, and public-sector professionals as both an information source and a daily work tool.

Redesigned Oireachtas homepage with schedule features. — Redesigned Oireachtas web experience with scheduling and parliamentary information features.

Client The Houses of the Oireachtas

My role Creative Direction, Web Design, UI Design, and Photography

Project length 12+ months

Team Each&Other with John Wood, Bella Morehead, and Laura Nolan

Challenge

Unlike conventional sites, Óireachtas.ie is used not only as a source of information for the general public but as a work tool for many people in government and the public sector. For these people, it can be thought of as more of a work application than a run of the mill website. A constant source of reference and guidance in their daily lives. The old Óireachtas website had become quite dated and difficult to maintain.

The site itself contained hundreds of thousands of pages of content dating back to the formation of the first Dáil. Think of every meeting and government sitting from every week, month, year and decade since then being captured in text format. It was a mammoth task to arrange and present back in a format that could help workers and the public alike to have easy access to this knowledge.

Guiding Principles

Typography is paramount.
Modern Heritage: The history of the Houses of the Óireachtas needed to come through in a modern way. Our Creative Direction must enhance these qualities and bring them to the fore.

Before Redesign

More details to come. Work in progress...