IOTA Foundation

Repositioning

Senior Creative Technologist
IOTA Foundation
2024-2025
In-house Communication Department
Germany
Roles
Design System · UX · Product Owner · Prototyping · Information Architecture · Repositioning
Repositioning

To communicate IOTA’s reinvention, I was part of the team responsible for repositioning and rebranding IOTA. My primary focus was the complete revamp of the website. To create greater clarity and focus, we decided to split the content into two separate websites: one dedicated to IOTA’s technology and the other to the IOTA Foundation.

The foundation site focuses solely on purpose and vision, regulatory work, research, team, and careers. This restructuring streamlined content and navigation while leveraging a multi-brand design and component system shared across three websites. Each site maintains a unique theme and brand positioning, ensuring consistency while highlighting its distinct identity.

Credit: UI: Aleksa Krstic, Motion: Igor R Nilsen, Graphics: Bohdan Yemchuk, Art Direction: Sabri Goldberg

The brand film

The half minute version of the repositioning, made to open the site and to travel on its own.

A second site, on purpose

Technology and foundation were competing for the same pages. Splitting them gave each a clear job, and this one is about purpose, research, regulation and the people.

Pages of the IOTA Foundation site arranged at an angle, in the lighter blue theme of the foundation brand
Illustration set for the foundation brand, with digital passports, a signed certificate, a content editor and a distributed ledger

Its own voice, the same system

A lighter palette and a flatter illustration style separate the foundation from the technology brand, while the components underneath are shared across all three sites.

Where the technology lands

Focus areas replaced feature lists. Each one names an industry and a real use case, which is what regulators and partners come here to find.

The focus areas page, with a connected globe above cards for identity, tokenization, supply chains, finance and circular economy
The DLT research section, with academic publications, an IEEE workshop and research collaborations

The research stays, it just moved

Years of protocol research were the old site's centre of gravity. Here it has a proper home without standing between a builder and a product.

Proof rather than promise

Named partners and funded projects do the arguing. It is the most credible material the organisation has, and it was buried before.

Sections on collaborative projects with industry partners and on digital identity as a global trust layer
The Team and Careers page beside the European Blockchain PCP showcase

People and programmes

A foundation is judged by who is in it and what it has delivered. Both got their own space in the new structure.

Where next

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