CURE International (Site of the Day - Nov 25, 2010) — UI design breakdown

[gallery columns="2"] This site is the official online home of CURE International, a nonprofit charity that performs medical surgeries on children with disabilities in developing nations. It is the primary means of communication with donors and a critical fundraising tool for the organization. CURE has a presence in 16 countries worldwide and has seen over 1,000,000 patients in just over 12 years of operation. We designed and developed the site completely in house. The site makes use of progressive HTML, CSS and lots of jQuery. It's built on Wordpress as a framework with several popular WP plugins, and a few homegrown ones. We're also making extensive use of the Facebook API, Flickr API, Mailchimp API, and Twitter API throughout the site to do some really cool stuff. Sourced from Awwwards. Use this page as a UI breakdown: reverse-engineer hierarchy, color roles, and interaction cues before you remix ideas into your own screens.

• Study how CURE International separates primary actions from secondary content—note spacing, type scale, and focal contrast. Recognized as Site of the Day - Nov 25, 2010.
• Extracted palette (#987654, #49C5B6): check which hues carry brand vs utility chrome.
• Darkest #987654 vs lightest #49C5B6 sits around 2.0:1, which is soft—better for backgrounds than small body copy.
• Ask: what would break first if this layout were a product dashboard—navigation clarity, scan order, or color contrast?
• Related themes: Institutions, Other, Wordpress.