Questions


  • Client: Arnold Worldwide
  • Role: Developer

Details

Arnold wanted to give their employee’s the opportunity to ask questions. Anything from can we get cold brew in the office to what does losing a Client mean for the agency. The issue, employees were too shy to ask questions in front of an all-agency forum. The solution, build a site where they could ask anonymously, a newer aged approach to a suggestion box of sorts.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinated with agency stakeholders and the UX/UI designer to align on requirements
  • Pushed designs through creative and other agency approvals
  • Developed the site
  • Worked with the tech director to host and create a deployment script for the site
  • Worked with IT to lock the site down so that it could only be used internally
  • Soft launched the site to a small initial group to QA test and gather initial content

Build Details

  • Created most of the front end using SCSS, jQuery, and Gulp
  • Separated and anchor linked the 2 main sections (Ask & Answer) using fullPage
  • Laid out and filtered the grid of answers with Isotope
  • Changed the header logo based on scroll position
  • Built a custom theme using WordPress
  • Extended WP’s search to include custom fields based on this article
  • Created draft posts on the back end when users submitted questions using Gravity Forms
  • Populated ACF fields with question values, which made it easy for admins to answer questions
  • Pushed local updates to production via Dandelion