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Herning Kommune
CLIENT
Herning Municipality
INDUSTRY
Local Government
EXPERTISES
Digital Experience Platform
Experience Design & Interfaces
CREDITS
Herning Kommune er en dansk kommune med ansvar for at levere information, services og digital adgang til borgere på tværs af et bredt kommunalt landskab. I en kontekst, hvor tilgængelighed, brugervenlighed og bæredygtighed er afgørende, arbejder kommunen for at skabe offentlige digitale løsninger, der er nemmere at bruge og bedre rustet til langsigtede behov.
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PROJECT OVERVIEW
Solution
Process
Collaboration
Result
What we say
At the beginning of 2021, Kruso entered into a collaboration with Herning Municipality, Inklusio, Special Minds, and Mundfuld Studio to develop a new website for the municipality. The result was a modern Umbraco solution based on Publify – our municipal development framework. The project marked a significant milestone as Denmark’s first municipal website with a focus on CO2 reduction and full web accessibility for all citizens. Although the solution is no longer live today, the collaboration remains a strong example of how digital development and social responsibility can go hand in hand.
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Umbraco Solution with a Focus on Web Accessibility & Usability
Herning Municipality needed an update of design, but first and foremost, there was a technical need. The most important points for the municipality were user-friendliness for both citizens and the municipality's editors, a new design, and a consistent focus on web accessibility.
The solution is built on Umbraco open-source CMS. In addition to ensuring unique user-friendliness for the editors, this is a flexible solution with lots of different integrations and can thus be explicitly adapted to Herning Municipality's needs.
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Sparring Between UX & Frontend Early in the Process
In building Herning Municipality's new solution, there was cooperation and sparring between frontend and UX early in the process. This sparring resulted in UX knowing what the possibilities within the framework of the Publify core were from the beginning. Thus, Kruso, in meetings with the municipality and the external designer from Mundfuld Studio, could be at the forefront and make sure early on that the different parts of the process adapted to each other.
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Collaboration with Inklusio & Special Minds
The work with web accessibility happened in collaboration with Inklusio and Special Minds IT, experts in the field. Kruso generally focuses on web accessibility, but expert advice and assessment throughout the process has ensured a consistent focus on web accessibility from UX and design to the development process itself.
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A Specially Developed & Climate-Friendly Solution for Herning Municipality
One of the new functionalities that have been developed specifically for Herning is a new user-friendly solution for filtering searches on their website. Specifically, we made a refactoring of the faceted lists, which makes it possible to do a local search on the site. This means, that the user is given the opportunity to search more specifically and topic-related in the given list.
In addition, specifically for Herning Municipality, we have added a "Climate-friendly view" function. This function reduces the CO2 footprint by 30% for each page view and up to 70% on pages with many images. With a focus on climate friendliness, we have hidden data-heavy elements such as images and videos, removed intense colors, and created a more climate-friendly code.
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The collaboration with Herning Municipality has generally been rewarding for us. Throughout the process, they have presented some exciting demands, but at the same time, they have been good at listening to our suggestions.
Anders Krogh Rasmussen, Frontend Developer
Kruso
An exciting collaboration
Kruso and Umbraco
There is still a close dialogue between Kruso and Herning municipality concerning operations and new development, and with a view to web accessibility in the content posted by the municipality's editors. Herning municipality can now offer its citizens a new and more climate-friendly website with an ambitious design that meets their needs and best-in-class requirements for web accessibility.
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