Renovatio: Online Journal of Zaytuna College
Zaytuna College approached us with a vision to create an online academic journal for all their scholarly writings. The site had to focus on providing a user experience focused on reading and digesting long form content on-screen.Optimized for content consumption.
Renovatio was extensively tested and optimized for an enjoyable digital reading experience.
“Renovatio is a Muslim journal about the ideas that have shaped our past and present world. Elegantly fusing old media with new media.”
~ Safir Ahmed, EditorSimple and Elegant
Beautiful typography, powerful front-end functionality, all on a rock solid enterprise-grade Content Management System.
Aesthetic Design & Layout
Simple Design to uplift the inspiring content.
We focused on having the design take a seat and almost disappear to have the true star of the show shine, the thought-provoking content.-
Homepage
Having the ultimate amount of flexibility to showcase the articles was key, so we created a variety of block configurations consisting of one-up, two-up, and three-up articles which could be mixed and matched to create an infinite layout variations.
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Article Detail Page
The reader is first presented with a short author bio and automatically calculated read time. Each article has the perfect balance of line length. As the user reads the copy the left side-bar presents them with related content such as pull quotes.
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Author Detail Page
As content editors publish articles and associate them with Authors, the respective author detail page shows the related articles. The author page also contains other external suggested readings helping provide readers endless amounts of content to discover.