An award-winning public health website designed to help New Jersey residents understand flu prevention and treatment.
Award-winningPublic-facingGovernment
The challenge
Pre-COVID and today, the flu remains a major health concern and can lead to serious illness or death. This website was designed to help New Jersey citizens understand the causes of the flu and learn how to prevent and treat it.
My role
Worked with subject-matter experts
Proposed engaging interactions
Supported instructional design decisions
Developed the front-end code and interactions
Approach
Created an engaging entry point to spark interest
Used varied interaction types to sustain attention
Included videos, quirky visuals, animations, and other engaging elements
Selected Screens
Interactive opening screen designed to draw users in quickly.
A content screen combining visual interest with public-health instruction.
Another example of the site's use of playful, memorable design to reinforce learning.
A doctor responds with good advice to the question asked.
A different doctor responds to another question.
Challenging learners to determine who should receive care first.
Is the symptom from a cold or the flu?
A fun approach to deciding what Jim should do, who has the flu.
Project Video
Tools
Adobe Captivate
HTML
CSS
JavaScript
Interaction design
Media integration
Collaboration with subject-matter experts
Outcome
Public-facing educational website for the State of New Jersey
Helped communicate flu prevention and treatment information to citizens
Contributed to an award recognition in a conference competition