Promotes creative concepts to inspire, inform, and captivate.
Empathizes with the user to create the best experience possible.
Balances visual and experiential aesthetics with usability.
Implements a consistent user experience across the web.
Excels at optimizing layouts—designed in photo and print tools—with pixel-perfect, yet responsive, perfection.
Enjoys working in a field that changes every day.
Speaks up for the edge cases to ensure the fewest users are marginalized.
Driven to make the project succeed.
Rachel Steely is a visual artist that takes fresh viewpoints on traditional subjects. She wanted an identity package that was traditional, yet contemporary--like her art--and a site that would place her work front and center for potential buyers.
Strategic Capital Partners is reviving this historic 100-acre property located along the Fall Creek Greenway less than four miles from the heart of Indianapolis. SCP requested a welcoming website to motivate developers to invest and create partners in the surrounding communities.
American beer drinkers need not to settle for "the big guys" when craft and specialty beers are on tap across the country. Each member of the World Class Beer Network has beer passionate individuals bringing the best beers in the world to you. The World Class Beer Network needed a promotional and educational site as well as a point-of-sale location tool for its catalog of more than 400,000 products.
Sport is a universal language that unites people on and off the field. Be a Fan™ and join Special Olympics Indiana in providing sports training and athletic competition to more than 11,000 Indiana athletes. SOI needed a new website to make their games and fundraising events more accessible to the public and their own athletes. The site was described by one SO national staff member as the "best website in the movement."
Each day Monarch Beverage successfully transports some 64,000 cases of beer and wine from its Indianapolis distribution center to more than 5,000 retail venues throughout Indiana. Monarch requested a website to connect with their patrons, run contests, promote their products, and recruit a skilled workforce. This is a custom Microsoft .NET CMS managed website.
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The East Chicago Marina is a welcoming stop for Lake Michigan travelers as well as home to the Boardwalk Grille & Banquet Center and the Indiana Harbor Yacht Club. The city wanted to promote their newly renovated (2010) marina and its amenities to the public.
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Inspired by the taste of Tuscany, Lorenzo's serves up Italian charm and authentic cuisine that will appeal to the most discerning tastes. Lorenzo's asked for a low cost, quick-turn-around, one-page micor-site that would be accessible to mobile users in preparation for Indianapolis hosting Super Bowl XLVI.
Spread across 34 acres and offering more than 300,000 square feet of space, Meridian & Main will accommodate a wide variety of hospitality, medical, retail and commercial tenants. This premier address provides high visibility within the prestigious North Meridian business corridor and will serve as a primary gateway to Carmel, Indiana's downtown renaissance. This micro-site includes an interactive site plan and area demographics.
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In 2008, when Miles and Brinson, a full-service marketing firm, decided to rebrand to MB2 Advertising, they refreshed their website to display their creativity and show off their past work. This project features parallax Flash animation along with other creative touches.
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Waste disposal is a dirty business--and we're not talking about the trash. Many companies that claim to provide green services actually outsource some or all of their client's recycling operations to uncontrolled third party vendors. Indianapolis-based, ERS, Inc wanted to promote their proper, compliant recycling and disposal services to prospective clients and show that they help a company's bottom line while protecting our environment.
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It claims to be “A search engine with taste.” It’s a lot like Pinterest for only design, but it should be used for more than general viewing. The search function is, well, nice. Search for elephant or script or a color.
I’m always a sucker for classic wayfinding–the design that you don’t notice.
Q: Where do you get your inspiration from?
It is always the streets of Beirut. Not the way my city is now, but how I wish it to be. When I studied graphic design in Beirut, I was always frustrated by the low quality of available Arabic fonts. It felt as if this is a reflection of a much larger state of being, of everything that is not OK in our part of the world. And that was a state of affairs that was intolerable, and so I set about trying to make my environment look better, one letter at a time.
Somedays I wish designing and coding websites was just Photoshop/Illustrator and a code editor (I like Coda at this time), but it’s not. Once you understand how the whole system works (Best Practices are changing everyday in this industry…) and you work at a place that has clients based on relationships (therefore valuing quality over shipping bad product), it’s a varied list of technologies to provide optimal performance, social sharing, error checking, compiling, and general quality assurance. There are many of these lists out on the web. Mine is targeting the WordPress CMS, but should be applicable to most content management systems and probably most websites. Remember, it’s sometimes about removing a feature instead of adding one.
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“Truncation is not a content strategy…”
-Karen McGrane
Approximately 1% of visitors click on a carousel feature.
“If a Front-End Development team reports to Engineering, the team gets rewarded for solving back-end technology challenges. But front-end development is not about solving back-end technology problems. It should be about making sure a product’s user experience differentiates the product in its marketplace.”
Forget about consistency, focus on coherence.
The current limits of CSS and canvas are eerily similar to 1980/90s desktop publishing tools and games as the fashion and color palette arrive. Coincidence?
This is a showcase of what you can do with HTML5′s Canvas using the JavaScript library Processing.js. There are many examples of abstract patterns for you to view.
“Because if your audience does do one activity with their smart phone, it’s probably to check their mail.”
