Designing Accessibility and Discovery Through Digital Experience
Designing Accessibility and Discovery Through Digital Experience
Dotfusion partnered with the client to rebuild the Faith-Based Content Hub, a platform designed to help people explore faith in a more personal, relatable way. The goal was to migrate the site from WordPress to Magnolia CMS, creating an experience that is intuitive, inclusive, and engaging.
The new platform delivers an elevated user experience focused on discoverability, conversational storytelling, and frictionless navigation. It transforms potentially intimidating spiritual content into a human-centered journey of discovery.
Platforms/Stack
Magnolia CMS
Disciplines
- Planning and requirements gathering
- Systems architecture
- UX and front-end design
- Headless website development
- Authoring workflow design
- Content planning and organization
Deliverables
- Cornerstone requirements workshop to define user journeys, features, and functions
- Proof of concept demonstrating integration of key Magnolia apps and authoring workflows
- Systems architecture and taxonomy design
- UX and design structure for authoring and content discovery
- Full Magnolia CMS implementation
Dotfusion's redesign transformed the Faith-Based Content Hub into an accessible, human-centered platform that makes spiritual exploration approachable and inclusive, while empowering content teams with flexible authoring tools through an intuitive Magnolia CMS implementation.
Technology
Built on Magnolia CMS, the new Faith-Based Content Hub gives content teams complete control of their publishing process. Authoring workflows were designed to empower both editors and publishers with flexible tools to manage diverse content types, including articles, journeys, and short-form plans.
The CMS implementation includes custom apps for pages, assets, menus, and sharing, ensuring consistency, scalability, and an improved authoring experience.
Strategy
Our strategy centered on accessibility, emotional connection, and user autonomy. The content and design approach reduces barriers to entry by using conversational language, friendly navigation, and short, approachable content experiences.
The Cornerstone process was used to define key user journeys, taxonomy, and authoring logic. From there, Dotfusion designed a system that allows content creators to easily organize and publish in a way that feels personal and natural to users.
Design
The design approach for the Faith-Based Content Hub is rooted in accessibility and empathy. The tone of voice is conversational, authentic, and real, creating an environment that feels like a dialogue, not a lecture.
Each article and journey is presented as a question or relatable prompt, helping users explore topics that matter to them. The grid-based layout is clean and democratic, giving equal weight to all topics. Visual iconography, tags, and imagery work together to create clear cognitive pathways and visual wayfinding.
Dotfusion led the UX and experience design, defining how users navigate, discover, and interact with the content. Working in collaboration with the client’s creative teams, we crafted a structure that feels open, safe, and welcoming.
