We have redesigned our homepage – Our World in Data

Making progress on the pressing issues facing the world requires being informed by the best research and data. Our World in Data’s mission is to make this knowledge accessible and understandable, and to empower people working to build a better world.

Our site covers a wide range of topics, including global health, energy and the environment, poverty, food, technology, democracy, and education. A recurring question for us is: How do we present this work clearly and allow users to quickly access the information they’re looking for?

Today, as part of this initiative, we are launching a redesigned homepage.

More complete content. We increase the amount of featured content you can link to within your homepage, showcasing our range of data, research and writing, and provide an easy path to our latest and most popular works.

Clearer structure. To help users navigate our work, we’ve added a more prominent search bar at the top and a list of all the topics we cover below. The new layout also clarifies the different types of content we publish, including articles, topic pages, and interactive data visualizations.

data front and center. Interactive visualizations are core to our efforts to make data and research accessible and understandable. We have selected some of the most important indicators to introduce you to Our World in Data “Grapher”. This is our primary interactive visualization tool and will appear on your home page for the first time.

Consistent design. The new homepage has been brought up to date with a new design system, giving you a more consistent visual feel across the site.

Common ways to find our jobs. We know that two navigational elements are common ways for users to quickly find the work they’re looking for: the search bar and the Browse by Topic dropdown in the header. You can still find it there.

Our work structure and mission are the same. Everything else at Our World in Data works as before, and of course, our mission remains the same.

Our World in Data is a content-rich publication, containing tons of text and thousands of charts on over 100 topics. Different users navigate this work in different ways. Some people prefer to browse our range of work by topic. Some people search for specific data or write quickly. Others prefer to follow our featured content. In our new home page design, we have strived to make each of these paths smoother, bringing users closer to the full scope of our work.

For content-rich publications, we also provide space to curate select works that may change over time and provide readers with an overview of the research and data that can be found in Our World in Data. I was thinking of increasing.

As always, if you have feedback about new designs or other aspects of our work, please contact us at info@ourworldindata.org or via our feedback form.

Matt Munday, Joe Hasell, Marwa Boukarim, Ike Saunders, Sophia Mersmann and Max Roser (2024) - “We’ve redesigned our homepage” Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: 'https://ourworldindata.org/homepage-redesign' [Online Resource]

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    journal = {Our World in Data},
    year = {2024},
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