Function Well
Function Well is more than a gym. It’s your complete fitness and wellness hub, built to help you invest in your physical, mental and social wellness.
It’s a Lifestyle.
Testimonial:
Min is a dream to work with. She is incredibly efficient and always so quick to come to our rescue when we need something edited / fixed / anything at all! I had full faith that she would be able to pull off the website design based on the brief we gave her but she honestly exceeded our expectations.
-- Molly Fabri
She was able to fully meet the brief and then also use her own creative skills and user experience knowledge to push us towards alternatives / better design options, new font possibilities and more, all that aligned with the goals we had.
You can confidently put your website in Min's hands without a second thought. I have full intention of using Min for all future website endeavours.Marketing Manager at Function Well
Web project details:
I’ve been working with Function Well going on 10 years now, back when my old zeroseven colleague Emily and I designed/developed the v1 of their website.
Since last year, Molly (fw Marketing Manager) and I have been talking about an aesthetic overhaul, based on their client’s feedback: the Newstead Hub is so zen, and they were surprised – the website conveyed an athletic, more masculine air.
So, Molly and I started talking about how to modify the Function Well website to bring it into balance, which really is what Function Well is all about!
With that end-goal in mind, I came up with new fonts, layouts and design elements that would encompass both the yin and yang aspects of their business, while bearing in mind that all the design elements would need to be fully customisable in the back end (still WordPress).
I also took this as an opportunity to entirely rebuild the back end of their website. With any website that has been around for close-enough to 10 years, you’re inevitably going to end up with legacy functionality. Rather than just design a new theme for their existing content, I did a complete overhaul of the content blocks, configuring more options and layout configurations.
For example; with the focus on yin and yang, the FW team have the option to have any block they create to with a black background, or white background – including the header and navigation bar itself, page by page. This background control makes the content and buttons within switch colours, to remain readable, automatically.
The content blocks were both consolidated to make it simpler to create interesting and beautiful pages, and given a wealth of new options; the ability to control whether excerpt text appears on hover or underneath the card navigation; the ability to control the alignment of the images uploaded, and many, many more options.
New to the v2 of Function Well is the help centre, which has a search and filter functionality so users can either type what they’re looking for, or browse through help centre categories.
A similar functionality was added to their locations section, as there are plans to expand to additional locations, and having those searchable will be useful in the future!
Finally the existing membership table was styled to match the new aesthetic, and given a more mobile-friendly functionality; if you’re on a handheld device, you can swipe between membership tables, while on larger screens, all three are visible at once.
FW v2 was a truly beautiful, fun website to work on, and I feel, as with v1 of the website, this new design is going to stand the test of time, too.