Friday Feast Overview:
Friday feast is a soup kitchen community meal in Seattle's University district that offers guests a restaurant quality hot meal, a selection of fresh produce, toiletries, clothing and other essentials. Always we serve coffee, hot chocolate and dessert. While all are welcome at the meal, our priority is to serve a well balanced and hearty meal to food insecure individuals, whether they’re UW students, local families, low-income seniors or our unhoused neighbors.
Website Goals and Values
The directors of Friday Feast want to apply for grants for the soup kitchen, so they needed a website showcasing what htey offer every week and the kind of community they've built in the 20 years they've been doing this. But it also had to be informative and functional for anyone that wanted to visit for a dinner or get involved with Friday Feast. So we knew we watned to encapsulate the services in quick statistics, stories / testimonials, and lots of pictures.
Roles and Responsibilities
Role: UX/UI Designer & Wix Developer
Tools Used: Figma, Wix, Editor, Illustrator (Logos)
Responsibilities:
Conducted discovery meetings with the organization to understand their goals and audience needs (UX research & empathy mapping)
Captured original photography of the soup kitchen to use across the site
Developed the information architecture, including navigation structure and page hierarchy
Designed and implemented a volunteer sign-up portal to streamline engagement
Created custom logos and visual assets tailored to the organization’s identity
Built the entire website from scratch using Wix, ensuring full mobile and desktop responsiveness
Design Process
Responsibilities:
Conducted discovery meetings with the organization to understand their goals and audience needs (UX research & empathy mapping)
Captured original photography of the soup kitchen to use across the site
Developed the information architecture, including navigation structure and page hierarchy
Designed and implemented a volunteer sign-up portal to streamline engagement
Created custom logos and visual assets tailored to the organization’s identity
Built the entire website from scratch using Wix, ensuring full mobile and desktop responsiveness
Impact
Since launching, we've applied to
Visit fridayfeast.org
Color Scheme
We wanted it to embody the heart Friday Feast, not too flashy, but bright and welcoming, and humbly joyful.
Maddie Chan