UFCW

Sector(s)

Non-profit

Team Members

minneapolisdan, broeker, ec-adam, trentmarks, jumpsuitgreen, bnuebling, oliviacoleman

Project Team

Team Members and Roles on the Project:

Dan Moriarty – Creative Lead, Planning and Discovery, UX and UI design
Tim Broeker – DevOps
Adam Fuchs– Site Build Lead, Frontend Development, Theming, Site Building
Olivia Coleman – Project Management
Mark Planchak– Frontend Development, Theming, Site Building
Trent Marks– Frontend Development, Theming, Site Building
David Kirkwood– Backend Development, Content Migration
Brian Nuebling– Backend Development

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Organizations Involved

Electric Citizen

UFCW 1189 represents over 10,000 food and commercial workers across Minnesota, Western Wisconsin and North Dakota. The website is the primary source of information for any active contract negotiations, member benefits, and member worksites.

They had a long-running, legacy Drupal 7 website in need of an upgrade to the latest version of Drupal, as well as an overall design refresh to better server members.

Electric Citizen had been supporting their legacy site for several years, and worked with the union on the redesign and upgrade.

Describe the project (goals, requirements and outcome)

Project Goals and Requirements:

Upgrade legacy Drupal installation to modern Drupal
Migrate content from old website to new installation
Rework the site navigation to improve user experience
Refresh the overall theme and visual design
Rebuild the backend, cleaning out unused or out-of-date tools and configurations

Outcomes

The new site made it easier for everyone–the site editors maintaining the site and the union members who relied on the site for information. Under utilized and unused features and content were removed to bring better focus to the content that mattered.

Improvements include:

Simplified navigation, focused on more understandable terms and pathways for users
Clean, modern design with an emphasis on more images and "humans" involved in the union
Responsive and accessible web pages
Targeted call-to-action sections on key landing pages

Why Drupal was chosen

While UFCW had been using Drupal for a number of years, when it came time to redesign the site, they had a choice of many options for managing their website.

Ultimately, the built-in features to easily manage sets of data across different content types, along with all the UX and design improvements offered to editors, made it an easy choice to stick with Drupal.