Nobody has a name until they should
Browsing shows a candidate ID — #F251 — not a name or a photo. Age, height,
residence, status and religious preference sit in a plain data table underneath, with
eligibility stated outright. I designed it to look like a record, not a dating profile,
because that's the difference families actually care about.
A seven-step application that doesn't feel like one
The application is long by necessity — background, non-negotiables, preferences, your
story, photo. I designed it as numbered steps down the left with one card of fields at a
time, and put "kept private, never published" directly against the fields it applies to
rather than in a policy nobody reads.
Two products, one language
Members and the committee see different things, so I designed the admin console — the
review queue, the match-maker, profile fields — in the same navy, bone and gold, with the
same type. The volunteer running it should never feel like they've been handed the back
room of somebody else's software.
Weight where the stakes are
Deep navy for anything committing, bone for reading, a single gold accent for labels
and eyebrows. Serif headlines against a plain sans for data. It reads institutional and
careful, which is what a masjid needs it to be.