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06 / Drug Education Network

The envelope does not have to say Drug Education Network

A site for the Tasmanian organisation that produces alcohol and other drug information. It carries a resource library, an ordering service, and a bar on every page for anyone who is not browsing but looking for help.

The brief

DEN writes and prints the alcohol and drug information used across Tasmania, by schools, workplaces, community organisations and by people looking for themselves. Those are different readers arriving for different reasons. A teacher ordering fifty booklets and someone reading at midnight about their own drinking need the same library and almost nothing else in common. The site had to serve both without making either feel like the other was the intended audience.


What we built

  1. 01

    A colour and a set of drawings for each of the five sections, so you know where you are before you read the nav

  2. 02

    A black bar under every hero, in the same place on every page, asking whether you need drug information or help

  3. 03

    Information packs posted out free, with the option to leave the organisation's name off the return address

  4. 04

    Two paths on the resources page: a community member wanting information, and a professional ordering copies to hand out

  5. 05

    A search across the whole resource library, so it is usable by someone who does not know what is in it

  6. 06

    Education and training separated by who pays: no or minimal cost for schools and funded organisations, user-pay for private business

  7. 07

    Drawings of objects rather than photographs of people, so nobody on the page is cast as an addict


Screens

The resources page, with columns headed Information Pack and Resource Orders, then a search field reading 'e.g. help, alcohol'. A black bar across the page asks 'Need drug information or help?'
The page that carries the discretion. Packs are posted free, and the return address can leave the organisation's name off, because it arrives at a house where nobody may have been told.
The projects page on a blue ground with a drawn Swiss army knife, listing DEN's projects, above a footer split into five coloured blocks for each section.
Blue for projects. The footer carries all five colours, so the whole structure is visible from the bottom of any page.
The education and training page on a purple ground with drawn bow, arrow and target, split into an Education column and a Training column.
Purple for education and training. The split is by who pays: schools and funded organisations at little or no cost, private business user-pay.
The news and events page on a coral ground with drawn speech bubbles and a calendar, above a grid of social platform links.
Coral for news and events. Same hero shape, same help bar, different colour and drawings.

Outcomes

  • Help sits in the same place on every page, one click from anywhere on the site

  • Someone can ask for information without the organisation's name turning up on their doorstep

  • A teacher ordering copies and a person reading for themselves take different paths to the same library

  • The site reads as a health resource rather than a warning poster