Autorité des marchés financiers

WebsiteInformation architecturePublic sector
Four audiences, a very large site, one structure. Ten years later, it still holds.
  • 4audiences, each with its own door: the general public, professionals, future professionals and the AMF's other mandates
  • 16page templates, from the four home pages to the complaints section
  • 10+years later, the same tabs and the same life-event icons are still online
A financial regulator talks to everyone: a family buying a house, a firm filing a form, a student preparing an exam. Each of them needed a door of their own.

The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) regulates Québec's financial sector and helps people make sense of insurance, investments and fraud. In 2015, Libéo was mandated for the design and the information architecture of its new website, lautorite.qc.ca.

I designed the site, from the first home page concepts to the templates of every kind of page and their mobile versions. With Libéo's team, we brought a very large site into one architecture, and our wireframes went into the AMF's call for tenders for the build. In 2016, I stayed on to support the AMF's own team.

Sixteen templates. February 2015: the list of page types the site needed, from the four home pages to the complaints section.
Six concepts. March 2015: home page proposals A to F. The AMF chose concept F2 on March 31.
Mobile and icons. April 2015: the mobile versions of the home and of a typical content page, and the first life-event icons.
Every page type. May and June 2015: news, search, glossary, newsletters, online services, contact. Approved on June 30.
Support. 2016: mockups and CSS for the AMF's team, the colours and the grid, then a knowledge transfer.

Where the AMF site is today

The AMF has changed its photos and its content since. The four audience tabs, the menus under them and the six life-event icons are still there on lautorite.qc.ca.

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The website of Québec's financial regulator: one architecture for four audiences, 16 page templates and life-event icons, still online more than ten years later.

Credits

Web design and information architecture
Jean-Sébastien Daigle · Libéo
Client
Autorité des marchés financiers