Embolden Design: Higher Education

Embolden understands that a vital online community can be as important to an institution of higher learning as a vital campus. We apply our highly specialized consulting services to help educational institutions integrate technology and design to reach their varied audiences.

We’re experts at keeping colleges and universities on the cutting edge, whether through blogs, forums, email campaigns, podcasts, RSS feeds, wickis and tags.

Brown University Education Department

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CHALLENGE:
The Education Department at Brown University sought a website with a fresh look, but one that would maintain elements of the Brown University brand. The university was moving toward a tableless, CSS (cascading style sheets) layout and wanted this site to address those accessibility issues as well.

SOLUTION:
In addition to providing a sophisticated design, we used our expertise to build the site using only CSS so that it can be interpreted correctly by as many browsing devices as possible, including those used by people with visual or physical impairments.

The Poverty Institute at Rhode Island College

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CHALLENGE:
The Poverty Institute at Rhode Island College, School of Social Work, is devoted to developing and promoting policies to improve the economic security of low-income Rhode Islanders. The organization needed to get information out to its constituents: policy makers, low-income Rhode Islanders and its supporters. And very often it needed to get that information out quickly.

SOLUTION:
Embolden created dynamic applications allowing The Poverty Institute to shoot out legislative alerts, hearing information and other timely announcements. The Matriarch content-management system provides for up-to-the-minute changes to content and RSS webfeed capabilities push out Poverty Institute news and provide outside news to website visitors.

Yale University: The MAAX

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CHALLENGE:
The MAAX (Maximizing Adolescent Academic eXcellence) of Yale University needed a website that captured a youthful, upbeat look to promote the program that targets urban adolescents.

SOLUTION:
Embolden consulted with MAAX on site navigation and designed a vibrant, colorful website for the MAAX to appeal to students, facilitators and parents. Embolden’s content-management system allows for easy updates.