Something that was lacking in the presentation and outward appearance of the Nonprofit was the social media usage, namely their Twitter/X presence. Their latest post on that platform was from 2024, which is rather outdated considering the numerous events they have hosted since then. As a little mockup, I have created a sample twitter post that explains and promotes one of their newer events, which I think could be applied across all future events to better reach a wider range of people.
In seeking out to create a newsletter for 3D Girls, Inc., I was met with several challenges. The first being the manner in which the mockup would be created. Given my limited experience with the WordPress interface as a whole, I opted to make this a more demonstrative example that would serve as an example of how a potential newsletter might be formatted, rather than a fully functional product. And as such, chose to use Canva to create a template email newsletter. Canva offers a variety of easily available templates, and I was able to pick the one most suited to a newsletter. This process of decision and initial brainstorming took around 30 minutes.
This is a basic sample of a new layout for the 3D Girls, Inc. “events” page, to better highlight and showcase some of their events with a better interface for the viewer. The original interface was designed in a way that would require the viewer to click “read more” for any amount of information about the event presented above, which often had the effect of being vague to the point where it was unclear what the event would entail.
This simple change would ensure that every visitor to this page would be prompted with a brief little summary of information that would inform them of the general gist of the event, after which they would be able to read more if they so choose. This would also ensure a potential increase in throughput for this page and may help with retention.
The completed newsletter mockup showcases some of the past events of 3D Girls, Inc. While this mockup is rather simple, this proof-of-concept design can be expanded and reiterated to be fully used as a monthly newsletter aimed towards the nonprofit’s donors.
This mockup took a combined total of around 60 minutes to make and is styled so that there is easy access to the information on the resources and programs that 3D Girls, Inc. hosts for the month. While some of the information on there is vague, a more comprehensive version of the newsletter might be further refined on with more time.
For this flyer I chose to use Canva, as I feel it is most well-suited for promotional material such as this. I tried to design an infographic that was simplistic yet still managed to convey all of the necessary information pertaining to the event and when it will take place. I picture a flyer such as this to be attached to a social media post on a website such as Twitter, which will further explain the event along with this post.