A Unique Challenge
Anning-Johnson Company is one of the country’s largest specialty construction companies. With an over 75 year history, they are the premier trade contractor in eight markets across the US.
Services
- UX Design
- Web Development
- Web Design
- Content Strategy
Key Features
- Custom Iconography
- Interactive Timeline
- Strategic Call to Actions
- Visual Mega Menu
Goals
Anning Johnson came to The Ocean Agency with the primary goals of revitalizing their brand identity, highlighting that they are a national company with local resources, driving recruitment and ensuring that site visitors can find the right service offering easily. They faced a unique challenge because, although they have multiple locations across the United States, the services offerings varied from location to location.
Outcome
Providing users information in the way they prefer
During the discovery process we uncovered that Anning Johnson visitors looked to get their needs met primarily two ways. Either by looking for the name of the service offering or by the geographic region of the location that they are in. We leveraged that information to employ a navigation that allowed users to navigate to the services or locations directly from the main navigation. Also, following that same strategy, we implemented a filter on the portfolio page. Projects can be search either by location or what service was performed.
Improving the recruitment experience
Increasing recruitment leads was major goal for Anning Johnson. The first issue we identified that could be a potential road block to generating interest from applicants, was that the old site did not provide/highlight the company culture. To remedy that, we designed a new careers section that included a landing page that provided information on the culture of Anning Johnson and why anyone would want to work there.
Custom Iconography
Anning Johnson’s service offerings presented a challenge to represent visually. Services included roofing, metal decking, abatement and removal, etc. Due to the complexity of the services, there were little to no existing visual assets we could leverage to represent their services. Therefore, we enlisted our in house Illustrator to create custom icons fo reach service. But, we didn’t stop there; we also created custom icons for each of the cities where they have locations.
