NED Connect - The Website is Never Just the Website
When a new platform launches, the website is often the first thing the public sees. Before anyone registers, explores a dashboard, or submits their organisation's details, they land on a page that has to answer a simple question: is this worth my time?
That question is a trust problem. And trust is a design problem.
NED Connect exists to connect South Africa's education community. Bringing together organisations, funders, and government around shared data, better coordination, and greater collective impact. It's a platform with real depth: a portal, interactive dashboards, a growing directory of organisations working across the sector.
The website's job is to make all of that legible, quickly, to people who may be arriving with very different needs. A grassroots NPO wanting to get their work seen. A funder looking for investment intelligence. A government department trying to coordinate delivery. One front door. One first impression.
Building the Front Door
We were approached to build that front door, and we took the brief seriously. Not because the website is the hard part - but because if it doesn't do its job, neither does anything behind it.
Thank you to NED Connect and their partners NASCEE for trusting Juizi with this project.
