Case study · Nonprofit arts · Redesign concept

The Field

A home for artists to raise money, get found and grow, on the web and in your pocket.

Organization

The Field, nonprofit arts

Product

Website and mobile donation flow

Focus

Art direction, UX, UI, design system

Year

2022

Person typing on a laptop showing The Field site with artist portraits
Overview

The Field is a nonprofit that helps artists fundraise, get discovered and grow their careers. This concept reimagines its website and mobile donation flow to feel human, inspiring and trustworthy.

The work turns complex services such as fiscal sponsorship, campaigns and donations into something a first-time visitor can understand and use.

Challenge

Explain a broad mission without overwhelming a first visit, and keep a multi-step, recurring donation simple on a phone.

What we did
  • 01Led with strong type, space and one hero message
  • 02Split services, artist types and discovery into modules
  • 03Told the story through real artists and campaigns
  • 04Designed a step-by-step mobile donation flow
  • 05Built one calm component system for web and mobile
Art directionWebMobileDesign system

Four problems, framed up front.

Scope at a glance
01A broad mission. Many kinds of artists, many services.
02Art and clarity. Emotional, yet structured and informative.
03Complex giving. One-off and recurring donations in many steps.
04Every screen. The same hierarchy from desktop to phone.

Problems as framed in the case on phamhuyds.com.

Mission first

Say what it does before the scroll.

One headline, one portrait, two numbers. Services, artist types and discovery follow as separate modules you can scan in any order.

Full homepage layout with hero, services, artist categories and team
About page with portraits, offerings and a phone showing the donation flow

Homepage and about page, built from the same modules.

Tilted collage of site sections: hero, services, artist portraits and stats

Discover and give

From a campaign to a receipt in a few taps.

Discover an artist, open a campaign, choose an amount and how often, pay. Each step shows where you are and what happens next.

Three phone screens on black: Discover, campaign detail and donation details

Discover for donors, an income overview for artists.

Design system

Calm colour, editorial type.

A serif display face over a clean sans, mint green for action, and soft colour taken from the art itself. The same components build the site, the app and the artist dashboard.

Artist dashboard with income chart, running campaign, stats and upcoming events
Laptop on a white floor showing artist portraits

Light and dark, one set of parts.

Try the flow

Monthly giving, without the fine print.

Three short steps with a progress bar on top. The summary says, in one sentence, what will happen to your money and when.

Try the pattern
A Florist's TaleCampaign by an independent artist

Browser sketch of the donation pattern. No payment is made.

Hand holding a phone with the Discover screen above a wooden table

Impact

Clear, human and easy to give to.

The redesign turns The Field's online presence into something first-time visitors can follow and donors can trust.

Laptop balanced on a rock showing the hero with a blue butterfly portrait
01

Less to think about

A simpler structure lowers the load for first-time visitors.

02

Less friction to give

A mobile-first flow takes donors from discovery to payment in a few steps.

03

One look everywhere

A shared design system keeps web and mobile consistent.

04

Room to grow

Reusable components are ready for new services and campaigns.

Credits

A redesign concept by Huy Pham for The Field, a nonprofit arts organization.

Art direction

Huy Pham

UX & UI

Huy Pham

Design system

Huy Pham

Surfaces

Responsive web, mobile

Type

Serif display, sans text

Status

Concept

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