Stay Safe MN

Keeping Minnesota Safe.

The Need
The Solution
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Stay Safe MN Website

Stay Safe MN is first and foremost an educational website, serving to convey tips and guidance for safely navigating what have previously been common activities in our world pre-COVID-19.

The Need

As the Covid-19 pandemic initially developed in March of 2020, it became certain that an educational website was needed to provide valuable updates and information to the citizens and businesses of Minnesota. The information on this site needed to be targeted towards educating all Minnesotans about common behaviors that may need to change. The website needed to share information in an effective, interactive, and highly visual way. This site is differentiated from the state COVID-19 website, www.mn.gov/covid19, which houses numerous data dashboards, resources for Minnesotans experiencing hardships due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and breaking news and information about the state’s response.

The Solution

To meet an extremely tight deadline of standing up this new site, the Nighthawk team had to work quickly and efficiently in conjunction with the StaySafeMN team. The end result was a newly designed and developed website that was designed with user experience front and center. The optimized, mobile-friendly website offers a customer-centric look and feel to make it easy to locate important and time-sensitive information. The new website is responsive and compatible with modern mobile devices and web interfaces.

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Roadmap & Planning

A project plan is a roadmap for stakeholders navigating the tasks and deliverables necessary for success. Our roadmaps often begin with a GANTT chart and clearly define goals and timelines. Stakeholders involved and impacted by the project are identified and their needs defined during the initial project planning process.

Wireframe, Prototype & Design

Wireframes and low-fidelity prototypes are developed in order to represent the structure of information on the website and to visualize the content and demonstrate the basic functionalities in a static way. Rapid prototypes allow for first impression testing and online, collaborative review of the site mockup. Finally, high-fidelity design concepts are developed that represent the data in a visually pleasing and interactive manner.

Technical Support Services

Technical support services provide additional resources to tackle minor and major development needs. After the site had been launched, StaySafeMN needed Nighthawk to continue to work within their development server to fix miscellaneous bugs and add specifically targeted enhancements that would increase the longevity of the website. Once StaySafeMN approved all work done initially inside the dev server, we migrated the code to their live server, production site, and then retested to ensure everything was working correctly.

Responsive Design

The redesign required an updated, modern look and feel that was responsive to mobile use. The site was designed for all major mobile browsers and devices (iOS and Android). It was compatible with all major desktop/laptop browsers.