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August 4, 2026

Orizon, Inc. — Corporate Website

Overview

Orizon, Inc. is a government IT contractor founded in 1998 and headquartered in Maryland, providing advanced information technology and business solutions to U.S. Government clients worldwide across the civil, defense, and intelligence sectors. As a part-time UX/UI Designer, I contributed to the design and ongoing evolution of Orizon's public website — the primary tool the company uses to establish credibility with federal contracting officers and prospective government clients.

 

The Challenge

A government contractor's website carries a different burden than a typical marketing site. Its primary visitor is a contracting officer or procurement evaluator who needs to quickly verify capability, past performance, and credibility signals like certifications and contract vehicles. The site however, also has to hold up for prospective teaming partners and prospective employees sizing up the company. The site needed a clear, navigable structure across a fairly complex set of content areas — capabilities, past clients, contract vehicles, careers — without overwhelming a time-pressed, skeptical visitor, whichever of those audiences they belonged to.

 

The Process

1. Competitive & Comparative Research

Before any wireframing began, other established government-contracting sites were reviewed for approaches that stood out as effective, visually appealing, and worth adapting into the new site. Rather than designing in a vacuum, specific sites were identified as inspiration for different sections — treatments that already appealed to us and that we wanted to echo with a similar approach. These included:

  • Homepage scrolling tagline treatment
  • About, Capabilities, Clients, and Careers page layouts
  • Contract Vehicles and Careers content approach
  • Job listings page structure

 

2.Wireframe and Information Architecture (IA)

A full wireframe deck was produced mapping every page type on the site — Home, About, Capabilities, Clients (main and Project Successes), Contract Vehicles (main and sub-pages), Careers, Opportunities, and Benefits — with annotated notes on layout, required content, and interaction patterns (e.g., a left/right scrolling tagline on the homepage, and a scrolling client-logo strip on the Clients page).

Annotating each wireframe with the specific content that was still needed (short capability summaries, icon requirements, client write-ups) meant that the deck also doubled as a content strategy document, showing exactly what content, imagery, and structural elements each page still required before it could go live.

 
 
 
 
 

3. Visual Design and Build

The final site was built on WordPress, using a variety of plugins and BeTheme elements. Plugins included the Slider Revolution used to create the homepage’s rotating hero messaging and the Contact Form 7 for the contact form page. The visual design uses a clean blue-and-white professional palette tailored to a B2B and government audience, complemented by parallax background sections that add visual depth and engagement. Prominent approved certification logos featuring PMBOK, CMMI Level 3, and ITIL credentials were intentionally incorporated as a trust signal, reinforcing the organization’s expertise and credibility for prospective clients and evaluators.

Incorporation Graphics - I used the six-step process outlined below to incorporate graphics into the site.

  1.  Brand & UX Guidelines — start from the corporate color palette and UX guidelines
  2. Identify Image Needs — review each page for where imagery is needed and what message it should convey
  3. Source Candidates — pull options from approved, licensed image sites
  4. Stakeholder Review — share and collaborate on selection
  5. Adjust for Compliance — edit color, cropping, tone to match site guidelines
  6. Publish & Gather Feedback — incorporate into the live site and collect feedback

4. Content Delivery vs. Original Scope

The core structure of the live site launched largely as planned. A few elements originally scoped, such as the “Opportunities” job board and a database for tracking openings, were removed due to the ongoing maintenance complexity they would have introduced. The Contact Form was also replaced with a simpler alternative to streamline implementation. These adjustments were driven primarily by the functional requirements and limitations of the plugins involved.

Outcome

The site has been in continuous use as Orizon's primary public-facing credibility tool since launch, maintained and iterated on through the past years based on content updates and usability feedback. The wireframe-driven process, grounding layout decisions in direct competitive benchmarks and documenting content requirements alongside layout, kept a multi-page, multi-stakeholder site consistent in structure and tone across every section.

 

Keeping Content Fresh: Ongoing Content Management

The company placed a strong emphasis on keeping the site’s content current and accurate. Because the site’s primary purpose is to establish credibility with contracting officers, outdated capabilities or an old client list would undermine the trust the design was intended to build. Content upkeep was treated as an ongoing operational cycle rather than a post‑launch afterthought. I was responsible for monitoring changes in the business (such as new contract awards), drafting updated or new content, presenting those revisions to stakeholders for review, incorporating their feedback, and publishing the approved updates. This process kept the site aligned with the company’s evolving work and ensured it remained fresh, credible, and confidence‑building.

  1. Monitor & Flag - Site content is checked against what's actually changed in the business — a new project wrapping, a capability expanding, a contract vehicle being added or renewed — so pages don't just get revisited on a fixed calendar, but whenever something real on the ground has moved past what the site says.
  2. AI-Assisted Review - AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot are used to fold business changes into existing content and generate draft copy updates. This provides a faster first pass than manually rewriting each section from scratch and helps surface inconsistencies that might slip through during a manual review of a multi‑page site
  3. Human Review and Refine - Every AI-drafted suggestion is reviewed and checked for factual accuracy, and edited as needed to match Orizon's brand voice. 
  4. Publish and Track - Approved updates go live.  The practical benefit is that the site can absorb a new past-performance win or an updated capability quickly.