Goose Digital Web Design

Web Design for B2B

Goose Digital

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Design Services

  • Website Architecture & Strategy
  • UX (User Experience) Design
  • Responsive Website Design
  • Art Direction & Consulting

Platform

  • Custom WordPress Development
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Conversion Rate Optimization
  • Act-On Integration

Project Overview

An inside look at our unique strategy and design process for a complete digital rebranding of our B2B marketing automation partner in Toronto, Goose Digital.

Custom website design and WordPress theme development for a leader in digital marketing automation.

Our role as web designers offers countless opportunities to work with talented agencies within the creative industry. Our relationship with Goose Digital was born of one of those opportunities about 10 years ago as we met at a meeting with a shared client, Carbon60. Throughout our corporate rebranding and website design for Carbon60, we worked very closely with Goose Digital throughout the strategy and design phases of the project. Our teamwork ensured that shared resources found their way into both agency’s creative efforts offering the greatest impact on the new website and brand rollout that would later support a custom marketing automation solution.

Not too long after our firms were engaged once again, but this time to overhaul and redesign the Goose Digital website from the ground up. Having worked together previously to create a successful design campaign the ramp-up to the project was incredibly smooth, and communication was clear.

Custom WordPress Website Design for Goose Digital

Identifying Our Web Design Goals

Custom Website Design for Goose Digital

Our Web Design Process

Strategy and Research

Strategy and ResearchWorking through our initial website design strategy phase with Goose Digital started with an in-depth discussion of existing pain points within their existing website and identifying solutions to address them. Following our group discussions, we carried on with our independent review of their Google Analytics to provide a clearer view of how website visitors were using the website, and what content was of most value or interest to users. This information would later serve as a foundational element for our wireframing and page architecture exercises that would follow.

Working through our initial website design strategy phase with Goose Digital started with an in-depth discussion of existing pain points within their existing website and identifying solutions to address them. Following our group discussions, we carried on with our independent review of their Google Analytics to provide a clearer view of how website visitors were using the website, and what content was of most value or interest to users. This information would later serve as a foundational element for our wireframing and page architecture exercises that would follow.

Additionally, through a thorough study of the website analytics data, we were able to identify areas of the existing website and navigation that experienced higher than expected drop off rates. Understanding these issues early on in the project allowed us to create an improved navigation and user experience on the new website design to reduce these pain points.

With a thorough understanding of Goose Digital’s audience and expectations under our belt, our next step was to create a detailed sitemap to establish all properties and pages within the new website, where they would live and how our new navigational experience would work.

Following approval of the sitemap, things started moving with the design of detailed wireframes. Wireframing is the stage of most web design projects where things start to take shape and when our clients become more involved in the creative process. By creating wireframes before venturing into the web design phase, we eliminate visual distractions like colour, imagery and style to allow everyone to focus on page architecture and layout.

Kevin Butler

“Having witnessed Parachute’s web design process with a shared client, there was no question as to who would create our new website. Parachute took our ideas and brought them to life using their creativity and expertise on a very short timeline. Since launch, our new website has exceeded expectations and served as a cornerstone for our marketing. I would recommend Parachute Design in a heartbeat.”

Goose Digital
Kevin Butler,

Vice President, Strategy

Web Design and Creative

Following the wireframing stage, we jumped straight into our creative web design phase, where the wires begin taking shape and coming to life as we refine and polish things up before the development of the website. A challenge we faced in the design stage was working with the colour palette within the Goose brand that features primary red, blue, green and orange. Leaning on these colours too heavily creates a visually confusing website design that bounces the user’s eye around the interface too violently, which we determined to be a key pain point with the existing website during our strategy and research phase. Our solution was to break these colours up, limit their use and rely more on the foundational black and strong imagery to carry the new design, creating a more professional and confident persona for the fresh new web design.

Another area we aimed considerable effort at to improve with the new website design was sourcing higher quality photography that was much more content-focused. Not only did this further our goal of creating a more professional and confident online brand, but also helped clarify and convey key marketing strategies.

High-end Imagery to Support the UI

Pixel by pixel, the imagery helped tell the story.

Captivate with High-end Visuals

In addition to incorporating high-end imagery into our website design, we also opted for custom icon design and illustrations throughout the content to provide a more intuitive experience and more meaningful visual context to Goose’s digital marketing automation services.

Perhaps the most significant improvement we incorporated into the new web design was a truly responsive experience ready to adapt to any contemporary mobile environment. This experience not only enhanced the user experience on the website exponentially but also offered Goose Digital a notable leap forward in their search engine optimisation efforts.

Custom WordPress Theme Development

With the approval of the brand new responsive website design, our professional web development team took to action on both the front end development and backend, custom WordPress theme design. With our extensive experience in developing custom WordPress websites, our team was able to hard code many of the necessary features and functions into the content management system rather than relying on third party plugins to achieve the same results. This web development approach helped us build a high performing website as well as reduce the time and ongoing cost to maintain customised plugins within the WordPress installation.

Mobile-friendly UI Design.

It has to work anywhere, anytime.

A beautiful new UI in the palm of your hand.

A key challenge in imagining the mobile user interface design for the brand new Goose Digital website was accommodating the image-heavy design focus both on smaller device screens, but also taking into consideration mobile bandwidth.

Ultimately, our years of experience creating beautiful design for the web shone through and allowed for a truly beautiful finished product.

Responsive Website Design for Goose Digital
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B2B Web Design for Goose Digital

Website Deployment

The final stage before the implementation of the new website was quality assurance and on-site search engine optimization testing. At this point in the project, we put the website through its final paces before pushing to production. We checked that the website was performing as expected in contemporary web browsers and typical mobile devices. We also verified that appropriate tags and metadata had been applied throughout the website to ensure Google had the information necessary to rank the website after launch effectively. We also check that all scripts are compressed, and other best practices are applied to ensure the website performs at its best.

Ongoing Partnership

Follow the launch of Goose Digitals’ new website our firms have begun working together on a more consistent basis pairing their marketing automation services with Parachute Design’s professional web design and development expertise. Together, our teams have created successful deployments for our shared clients that extend well beyond a typical marketing and design campaign in the professional services and technology sectors as well as business-to-business website design.

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