Kids Count Data Center Widget
Role: Wireframes & Design Project Date: 2009 Client: Annie E. Casey (For Free Range)
Letting Data Tell The Story
Every year the Annie E. Casey Foundation puts out a large amount of information about high-risk children throughout the United States, collecting the data into a publication and website. In 2009 they approached Free Range Studios about a way to better share this data with those involved in children's welfare. After much brainstorming, we decided to create an embeddable widget that would allow users to investigate and share data, but also lock the data to particular screens that they could then embed within their own sites. Because the data is all feeding from Annie E. Casey's core data center, any additions or updates to the data in the widget can be easily spread to all authors using the widget as well.
Because this widget would live outside of the main Kids Count website, it was necessary to work on a user interface that was clean, clear, and would be unobtrusive to websites that might choose to embed it on their own page.
Since launch, the widget has been updated and re-released with each year's new data, and is now featured on hundreds of websites, allowing all users that find it a chance to encounter the data highlighted by the site's author, as well as any further data they wish to explore.