Case study · Sayaspora
A website designed for Sayaspora’s content.
Website design and development paired with an advanced content management system that gives Sayaspora’s team control over its content.


About the brand
Sayaspora is a Montréal-based media and community platform led by women from the African diaspora. Through stories, cultural projects, and events, it amplifies the voices of young African women and creates space for representation, dialogue, and connection across the diaspora.
Project narrative
Leadhouse created the Sayaspora website through a design-first process. After defining the visual direction and page structure, we developed the website and integrated a complex content management system so the Sayaspora team could manage its content.
Project details
Starting point
Create a website for Sayaspora with a content management system suited to the team’s content needs.
Leadhouse responsibility
Website design, development, and integration of a complex content management system.
What we delivered
A website built from an initial design phase, with an integrated CMS for Sayaspora to manage its content.
Why this approach
Connect the design of the public website with the team’s content management needs, carrying the design into development and integrating the CMS into the finished site.
Services provided
Website design
Visual direction and page structure developed before the website build.
Website development
Development of the Sayaspora website from the design phase.
Advanced CMS integration
Integration of a complex content management system for the Sayaspora team to manage its content.
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