This project is a redesign of the website of the presidential Administration of Russia. In this site you can find official information about the President's visits, articles. But also here you can find laws signed by the President and decrees. Those who want to write a letter to the president Administration can also do this.

One day, I was reading a news article, I visited in the site kremlin.ru for the first time. After I immediately started to research this site from the UX point of view. After walking around the site for about 10-15 minutes, I found several places that could be improved and forgot about this site.

But recently I came across a design case on Behance where a person was redesigning the website of one of the leading US news agencies. After that, I remembered my visit to the website of the President of the Russian Federation and decided to design its interface and logic in my free time, which eventually led to the writing of this case.

1. Easy content filtering
One of the mail goals why I decided to redesign the website of the President of the Russian Federation is to create a convenient and understandable search filter with the feature to subscribe to updates of this filter. So, let's start in order.

A person wants to find some material and goes through the item on the main menu to the item "Search":

He sees all the latest news on the site, including documents and regular events.

In the "Select category" section, the "All" item is highlighted:

In the front are the most frequent search items: a string for entering keywords, as well as the feature to select a category for search: "News", "Documents", "Instructions" or "All":

These items are demand, so they are always in a visible place. However, if a person wants to create a more detaled filter, then he can always click on the filter icon on the left to open additional search parameters.

Thanks to its size and contrasting dark blue color, this element has a good visulal weight on this page. Due to unprepared person can easy to notice it.

When you click on the icon, the filter opens:

The content and the search bar are slightly shifted to the right:

When you open the detaled filter, by default, only the sorting card for search results by date is visible, since this is one of the most popular functions used when searching for content:

Second after sorting is a filter with a selection of selection dates. Because very often when searching for archived records, a person knows the approximate interval of news output.

The third is a filter that helps you choose the subject of the publication. This is also one of the most popular filters that allows you to find a record about any area of society. You can coose topic, like "foreign policy", "parliament" and ect.

In this case, a person can use the "or" parameter by selecting several topics at once.

The fourth is a filter that allows you to show only those results that contain certain media files: text, photos, or videos. In this case a person can choose several items at once:

The fifth and sixth filters allow you to select the document number or responsible person (subject):

Two last filters are only available when you select the "all ", "instructions" and "documents" search category:

When you open the filter and select the "news" search item, such filters are not needed. Filter by search time in the "news" section":

However, when you select the search category "documents" or "instructions", these items appear in the filter again.

Filter during the search in the "Documents" section":

After selecting all the filter items, the person has a choice:

• just see the search results - click on "Apply filter".

In this case, you will just see the search results for the filter. This result is ideal if you need to find some information once.

• Or you can see the search results, but you subscribe to notifications about updates in this filter, click "Subscribe to this filter".

In this case, you will receive notifications about new things that match the parameters of this filter. Notifications can be sent by email or in one of the messengers.

So, you decided to subscribe to filter notifications after all. To do this, you need to:

1. Set filter parameters and click the "Subscribe to this filter" button at the end:

2. Then you will see a modal window where you will need to enter the name of this filter:

3. After entering the name and clicking "next", you will need to select the place where you want to receive notifications. This can be email address or one of the messengers:

4. After selecting the place to receive notifications, you log in the service selected for receiving notifications.

In the case of email, you confirm it an email sent to your email address:

If you choose one of the messengers or social networks, then you simply log in thanks to the messenger:

5. After confirmation, the page is updated and the filter looks like this:

6. Person can quickly switch between filters that have already been created. This can be useful if you have different filters for different topics:

7. If Person want to create a new filter and he is authorized he wants to use the option to add new filter by the click on the "add" button:

8. When you click on the "Add" button, above on of settings for filter selection appears, the detailed filter:

The filter is getting wider, just like when you create a filter from scratch.

When you save a new filter, it also appears in this block after the page is updated:

3. Creating of personal account

Your personal account allows you to manage filters and get information about sent emails to the presidential Administration in one place. Your personal account is created automatically when you save the filter and subscribe to its notifications. This makes it much easier to manage subscriptions from the dashboard and allows the person to do so if necessary:

• To change the filter parameters
• Edit the place of notifications (for example, choose Telegram instead of email)
• Remove an unnecessary filter

However, in addition to automatically creating an account, a person can simply create a personal account. To do this, they need to click on this icon:

2. When you click on this icon, a modal window opens in front. And the person can coose to log in or register:

3. Personal account

To log in, you need to be logged in on the site. Then you need to click on the icon in the right corner of the site and a small modal window will open:

From this modal window, you can immediately get to the two most popular sections:

• General settings
• The section with the letters and created filters

You can also log out of your account. This is classic account management formula, so most people should be comfortable and familiar with it.

2.When you are on to the main page of your personal account, you can see your username, email, and phone number. If necessary, you can change them immediately and after that to click on the "Save changes":

3. If you are on the page"Notifications", you can enable or disable notifications about emails or filters:

Below a person can connect social networks and messengers to receive notifications:

4. Go to the section "Filters and emails". Here you can:

• Change the filter name
• Edit its settings
• Enable or disable notifications for a separate filter in one click
• Remove filter

These actions are indicated by icons that are subconsciously understandable for a person, which greatly saves space on the page and makes the interface more clean and pleasant.

Also in this section you can see all the letters to the President or the presidential Administration. You can also view the date when the message was sent and read the answer to the message:

5. In the section "Change password" you can change the password of your account. To do this, you need to enter the old password and repeat the new password twice.

3. Section "News"

The "news" section allows you to quickly search for news using a filter. This section has its own small differences from other sections.

In particular, this section has a publication with a photo in the search results:

The filter is also slightly different – the filter here does not have the option to select the document number or responsible person:

Of course, I haven't worked through every page of the section, like "write an letter" or "contacts". This was done by me specifically, because I wanted to focus on the main tasks of the site – filters, notifications, and personal account. These main functions and determine the usability of the site.

Thank you for reading my case to the end. I will be glad to receive feedback and constructive criticism! You can write feedback to the comments: