Digital Storytelling
for Science and Research
We create digital storytelling experiences for science and research organizations that need to communicate complex ideas with greater clarity, depth, and public relevance. Our work helps organizations translate knowledge into more engaging, accessible, and visually compelling forms across websites, reports, campaigns, and interactive experiences.
Organizations
we work with
We work with organizations engaged in science, research, education, and public communication. These are often institutions doing thoughtful, specialized work that needs to be translated for broader audiences without losing nuance, credibility, or depth. These clients include:
- Conservation and environmental nonprofits
- Higher Education Institutions, Departments, Professors
- Architects, Landscape Architects, and Engineers
- Quasi-governmental organizations and NGOs
- Governmental Agencies
Common challenges
we help solve
Science and research organizations often have important knowledge to share, but turning that knowledge into a strong public-facing experience can be difficult. Digital storytelling can help bridge the gap between expertise and engagement, making complex ideas clearer, more compelling, and easier to navigate.
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Complex Ideas, Dense Content
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Strong Research, Weak Storytelling
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Multiple Audiences
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Difficulty Reaching Broader / Lay audiences
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GIS / Mapping Problems
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Difficulty Selecting Technologies / Services
Our
Approach
We approach digital storytelling as a way of translating knowledge into clearer, more engaging public experiences. The goal is to create digital systems that communicate complex ideas with substance, clarity, and a stronger sense of connection.
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1. Understand Your Audiences and Work
We begin by learning about the work itself, the audiences you need to reach, and the goals of the project. That includes the subject matter, the communication challenge, the existing content, and the broader context the work needs to live within.
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2. Shape a Clearer Story Structure
We develop sitemaps, wireframes, content outlines, and narrative structures that help organize information into a more coherent experience. This process helps clarify what needs to be said, how it should be grouped, and how people can navigate through it more intuitively.
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3. Design an Engaging and Informative Experience
We create visual and interactive systems that help make the material more accessible, compelling, and memorable. The goal is an experience that supports understanding without flattening the subject matter.
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4. Support Content and Launch Readiness
We help carry the project through the content phase by supporting writing, editing, imagery, and production needs as the work takes shape. We also help prepare the final experience for launch and make sure your team feels confident using and managing it.
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5. Build for Real-World Use
We create digital experiences that are flexible, maintainable, and grounded in the practical realities of the organization. Whether the project lives within a broader website or stands as a distinct storytelling experience, it should be built to last and to work well over time.
Case
Studies
Why
Tanager
Why organizations come to Tanager for this kind of work.
Our work with organizations connected to nature, science, education, and public life has given us a strong understanding of the challenge of translating specialized knowledge into more accessible and engaging public experiences.
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Subject Matter Familiarity
We are comfortable working with complex material and understand the importance of communicating it clearly without losing depth or credibility. -
Deep Experience
We’ve worked with many science-focused organizations over more than 15 years, across branding, websites, exhibits, campaigns, and public-facing digital experiences. -
Integration of Strategy, Design, and Storytelling
We approach storytelling as both a structural and visual challenge. Content, narrative flow, design, and interaction all need to work together. -
Technical Expertise
We have experience in a wide variety of technologies, platforms, and media, and can create custom applications based on your content.
Testimonials
“As designers, the team at Tanager are artists. As technicians, well, they’re artists. Their design work instantly captures your attention, as it must. The tech behind the design works flawlessly, as it must to allow the design to draw visitors deeper and deeper into the content of the site.” — Arthur Pearson, CEO, Roger Tory Peterson Institute
“The Tanager team is deeply invested in their clients, which comes through in every step of the design process. They are skilled designers with a beautiful aesthetic. Their true skill, however, is in listening and visioning for and with their clients. They work alongside the client: getting to know the organization so that they fully understand limitations and aspirations, and they transform those conversations into an impressive, highly functional end product. Beyond the quality of their design work, the team at Tanager is a joy to collaborate with. We are delighted with the way that Tanager helped us transform our website and we would highly recommend them.” – Kaity Ryan, Executive Director, Norman Bird Sanctuary
