We partially redesigned the website recently, focusing on improving three main areas: aesthetics, performance, and user experience. I’ll describe the main changes in this post.

Here is what the front page now looks like:

We replaced the tech imagery with Lady Justice. Tech work is what we do, but it is ultimately a means to an end; the end, of course, being justice. The drawn sword of Lady Justice communicates a willingness to fight for the rights she represents. Similarly, we are entering into an era once again in need of advocates willing to fight for the idea that the rights and protections under Title IX are not just for some, but truly for all.

You’ll see other visual changes on the front page. The menu is now more prominent and decorated, and the lawsuit stats section is consolidated with other database info on the left-hand side. We eliminated sitewide pop-up newsletter signup requests (they existed on a 60-second timer) and instead put a more prominent signup section on the front page.

We trimmed a lot of under-the-hood clutter, improving the overall speed of the website. Reload speeds are especially increased. We’ll be monitoring performance closely to ensure it stays consistent.

The database page is now more user-friendly. Overall, it should have a sharper, more professional look and feel. We changed the formatting of the database tables so that they are easier to read and contain more information per line. The database guide should also be much easier to navigate and the images more legible. A bug had caused two dropdown menus on the database page to fold behind the main content of the page, rendering them mostly unusable. We fixed that. We also fixed a bug that caused duplicate arrows in the database search dropdowns.

Many of the other pages look the same or received only minor changes.

We also loaded several lawsuits to the database…we’ll be making an announcement about that soon.

Thank you for visiting. More to come.