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Project Overview

KOMPAN's Play Institute runs a professional development series where researchers and early childhood experts — including Dr. Suzanne Quinn, PhD, Manager of the KOMPAN Play Institute Americas — present research-backed sessions on topics like neuro-inclusive playground design, nature play, and child development. Attendees earn accreditation for completing these sessions.

The problem was the certificate itself: someone was manually building them in Word, one at a time, with inconsistent formatting that didn't come close to representing a company of KOMPAN's caliber.

I redesigned the system from scratch.

What I Built

• A fully branded certificate template built to KOMPAN's exact visual standards — geometric red and white layout, gold seal, clean typographic hierarchy — something that actually looked worthy of the research-backed credential it represented.
• A fill-in system built for non-designers. Any team member could open the template, drop in the recipient name, session title, speaker, and date, and produce a print-ready certificate in under two minutes. No design experience required.
• Scalable across session types. Whether the event was a keynote on neuro-inclusion, a workshop on active play environments, or a regional training day, the template adapted without losing consistency or brand integrity.

The Result

A certificate that looks like it belongs at a professional development conference instead of a PTA meeting. The process went from a 20-minute Word scramble to a two-minute fill-in — and every person who walked away with one left with something that actually felt worth framing.

Role:
Template Design · Brand Systems

Client:
KOMPAN

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