Food For Thought WebsiteΒ
Every year Food For Thought offers an array of courses open to all Viacom employees. They range in topic from ways to improve your credit score to training for a marathon.
With the Food For Thought website, the client moved on from the traditional way they offered courses β print media. Some advantages of a website were its easy access of listings through a browser and an initial one time cost to the client that would lead to future savings.
Screen capture of course sections
Development decisions
The website was developed using CakePHP because it made building web applications simpler, faster and required less code. We just needed a server and a database and off we went.
The principal reason for the site β staff browsed and signed up for courses β lent itself perfectly to a typical e-commerce model β the shopping cart website. Therefore we organized the UI β navigation, functionality, interaction β and information architecture accordingly. We then provided the client with a CMS to manage the course listings and the staff who wished to attend, replicating the relationship of product and customer.
Two additions were a calendar and library. These functions were a natural evolution. The calendar provides another convenient way for staff to browse and pick. The library houses videos and podcasts of past courses for those who missed them or wish to review what they learned.
Everything is skinned in a clean and positive visual design that brings levity and fun to the process of choosing a course.
(Click on images of cart, calendar and library to enlarge.)
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