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Design Chatter video: Crisis aims to be bold and impactful. But does their website live up to those goals?

Charities, NGOs, and non-profits are some of my favourite clients. I’ve been fortunate to work with Greenpeace and WWF, to name two. Balancing creative direction and user-experience design is one of my favourite things to work on. In this video, I talk about the charity Crisis and its website and how they might make the facts about homelessness more real through their design.

Video: All Labour’s election websites and the missing 1997 version

Since, I suppose, the late nineties, every time a General Election comes around, the political parties roll out new websites. Having spent time studying Labour’s 2024 campaign website, I wondered what their previous election websites looked like. There’s barely anything left of Labour’s website from its victory in 1997 so I imagined what it might’ve looked like.

Video: Otto Storch inspired web design

In this new video, I discuss editorial designer Otto Storch whose work I discovered while flicking through a new addition to my design library. I love how Storch playfully combines images and typography to create designs which are full of energy and movement.

Video: The Labour Party’s website could’ve done better

In this new video, I look at what was up with Labour’s 2024 election website design, the absence of typographic or visual hierarchy, inconsistent use of colour, lack of focus, and a clear identity. How would I fix this?

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Andy Clarke. Web design pioneer

Andy Clarke

I’m Andy Clarke, a product and website designer. My work blends art direction, branding, and editorial to help people improve their products and websites. I’ve written books about website design, given talks, and delivered design workshops worldwide.