Anglophone Travellers in Portugal

The website design process began with extensive discussions between the design team and the project’s researchers to identify communication needs. These insights informed the development of an initial information architecture, establishing a foundation for the site’s structure.

Collaboration remained integral throughout the project, with continuous dialogue enabling the refinement of both low‑fidelity and high‑fidelity prototypes. This iterative process ensured the website effectively conveyed its dual role: engaging the general public, while preserving its academic research nature.

The Anglophone Travellers in Portugal website functions as both a storytelling platform and an academic repository, hosting the project’s publications and illustrations and texts of travelers’ accounts, searchable through text input and filters for ease of navigation.

To welcome visitors and foster exploration, the homepage is structured into sections introducing each main page of the website, with call‑to‑action buttons providing direct navigation.

The color palette, inspired by the theme of travel, features earthy shades of yellow and brown, evoking the warmth and vibrancy of Portugal’s landscapes and strengthening the connection to the project’s focus.

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A defining feature of the website is its emphasis on Portugal’s territory. Its significance to the project inspired the idea of a topographic representation.

Embracing Portugal’s distinct geographic characteristics, a three‑dimensional physical map was designed, cut, and assembled to visually capture the essence of the territory explored in the project. By manipulating light, shadows were cast to highlight the diverse elevations across Portugal’s regions, adding depth to this representation.

This map serves as a recurring visual element throughout the website, reinforcing its thematic connection to the Portuguese territory and landscape, and adding depth and texture to the user experience.