Open Scholar

OpenScholar started at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science as a way to give faculty, researchers, and departments the ability to build high-quality websites without developer support. By the time MacPhee Design worked with them, OpenScholar was serving thousands of sites across Harvard and expanding to universities worldwide. MacPhee Design designed the OpenScholar website in Webflow and created a library of design microsites used as templates for institutional clients, including Harvard, University of Virginia, and Brigham Education Institute. The Webflow designs served as both a visual blueprint and an architectural roadmap that OpenScholar's in-house Drupal developers built from directly. The templates MacPhee Design created became part of the platform itself, deployed across academic institutions as OpenScholar grew. This is design work that scales: not a single website, but a system.