The Canadian Agricultural Human Resources Council (CAHRC) is a non-for-profit organization focused on helping agricultural businesses with human resourcesissues throughout Canada. The council works with over 50 partners, 20 government departments, hundreds of collaborators, and leads 5 critical research programs.

The Council reached out with a problem: their resources and important documents weren't easily accessible for their users, and was no longer serving their clientele in the most optimal way. CAHRC needed an enhanced user-experience, of one of their online tools: the HR Toolkit. This way users could quickly access various documents and important information necessary to conduct the best human resource practices for their businesses. The repository of information was massive, therefore an adaptable and clear architecture was crucial to a successful product.

Since CAHRC had a tremendous amount of content to organize, comprehensive user flows were created to ensure no pages were missed, and the experience was easily navigable from start to finish. CAHRC’s main demographic also lived in rural areas, so speed and performance was a top priority. This flows were then transformed into high-fidelity wireframes, leaving no un-answered questions heading to the design phase. A mobile-first approach was chosen to scale down the design, cut-out unnecessary elements, strengthen the navigation experience, and ensure performance was met across bigger screen sizes.