At the 21st Annual Australian Web Awards, Quin was recognised as the most accessible website in Australia, taking out Best in Show: Accessibility, the discipline award for best overall accessibility across the entire field of entries.

QUIN, short for Queer Info Network, was developed in partnership with Thorne Harbour Health to address a well-documented gap: queer communities have long lacked access to health information that was built with community in mind. Institutional health resources have historically either ignored queer experience entirely or addressed it as an afterthought. QUIN was built to change that, bringing clarity to a large, deeply personal body of content grounded in lived experience rather than clinical assumption.

Why is it so great? Health topics spanning sex, mind, body, relationships and identity are visible immediately, without prescribed pathways or the kind of layered navigation that forces users to already know what they are looking for. The structure was designed from the ground up to handle the overlap and complexity that health content inherently carries, giving users orientation, genuine choice and control from their first interaction.

The visual system draws on cues from queer publishing and archival zines, with colour used structurally for wayfinding rather than decoration. Typography, layout and contrast were designed to meet WCAG 2.1 AA web content accessibility standards, the benchmark applied to Australian government and public-facing digital services. The visual choices that make QUIN feel like it belongs to its community and the choices that make it technically accessible are, in most cases, the same choices.

Motion is handled with Framer’s low-level libraries, giving precise control over microinteractions and runtime performance so that animation never interferes with how people move through the platform. The information hierarchy, which is the clearest category structure, the most direct pathways to content, and the most considered use of language throughout.

The Australian Web Awards has been championing excellence in Australian digital work since 2005. Run by the Australian Web Industry Association and judged by industry leaders, the awards are not a participation exercise. The Best in Show discipline categories assess work across the full field of entries regardless of industry, budget or scale.  The 21st Annual Australian Web Awards brought together exceptional work from studios across Australia, congrats to all entries and winners!

A thank you to Thorne Harbour Health

This award belongs equally to Thorne Harbour Health. Their commitment to building for queer communities, their willingness to invest in research, their trust in the process and their deep understanding of the people who use the platform all shaped what QUIN became.

See the project: yourcreative.com.au/projects/quin-queer-info-network

See the full 2026 winners: webawards.com.au/winners/2026