TY.ie is a website for Transition Year students to get the best experience from their year. Students can find work experience online as well as review their placement. TY.ie also provides CV and Letter Templates, Competitions and Interviews, all to help students during the exciting year. The website is an award-winning, one-stop hub for Transition Year.
TY.ie was started by four Transition Year students who experienced first-hand the difficulties of finding work experience and interesting things to do during the year. Inspired and motivated by the Student Enterprise Programme, they decided to tackle the problem by creating TY.ie
TY.ie was started by four Transition Year students who experienced first-hand the difficulties of finding work experience and interesting things to do during the year. Inspired and motivated by the Student Enterprise Programme, they decided to tackle the problem by creating TY.ie
Transition Year is the fourth year of secondary school in Ireland where the focus shifts from academia to experiential learning and personal development. "TY Students" take part in various extracurricular activites throughout the year and are tasked with arranging short term work experience placements with a company or institution of interest.
The problems many TY students face during the year is one, finding interesting activities to do and two, finding a rewarding work experience placement. Because of this, some students finish the year feeling like they didn't get as much out of the year as they would have liked. They feel like the year was wasted or a "doss".
So, while my friends and I were in Transition Year (2016) we decided to provide a solution to the problem by creating TY.ie. We found through our research that the main reason these problems exist is simply because the many opportunities that are provided in Transition Year are oftentimes unknown to students. Hence, by providing a resource which gathers work experience opportunities, Transition Year competitions, programmes and more, TY.ie has become the go to website for all things transition year accumalating thousands of impressions every month.
We divided the responsibilities of the website between us. I took on the design of the branding and the website as well as helping with technical aspects and marketing. The TY.ie logo, the TY Tie, is inspired by the acronym for Transition Year and name of the website, TY, as well as a common symbol used for education and work, a tie. We wanted a logo that would be easily recognisable and adaptable. The current logo is the second iteration.
Iterative process of redesigning the TY.ie logo
TY.ie logo redesign reveal video
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TY.ie was made using the WordPress engine, plugins and custom code. I wanted to create a website that would stand out from other educational websites and provide students with a modern, responsive and enjoyable experience. Most importantly I wanted to emphasises that the website was made for TY students by TY students.
