Posts tagged with ‘web design’

Slavery Footprint is a vivid demonstration of how to use the principles of design and the latest animation and jquery tools to tell a compelling story about the continued existence of slavery and how slaves are involved in producing the stuff we use every day.

Slavery Footprint is a vivid demonstration of how to use the principles of design and the latest animation and jquery tools to tell a compelling story about the continued existence of slavery and how slaves are involved in producing the stuff we use every day.

Navigation Arts, one of the D.C. area’s leading web design and user experience firms spearheaded the extreme makeover of Aqua.org, the site for the National Aquarium. Besides being beautiful, the new site closely integrates the visitor experience, before, during and after the visit, providing multiple entry points to interact with others and to learn in depth about the aquatic environment. The case study provides details of the process and results.

Navigation Arts, one of the D.C. area’s leading web design and user experience firms spearheaded the extreme makeover of Aqua.org, the site for the National Aquarium. Besides being beautiful, the new site closely integrates the visitor experience, before, during and after the visit, providing multiple entry points to interact with others and to learn in depth about the aquatic environment. The case study provides details of the process and results.

In anticipation of a meeting on designing a mobile version of the TeachingHistory.org site for which I spearheaded the redesign, I’ve been reading Luke Wroblewski’s Mobile First book. This graphic, which appears in an excerpt at A List Apart, is priceless in summing up the all-too-frequent disconnect between content creators and end users. [Aside: It is often easier to find something on the GMU website via a Google search than by going to the site’s home page.]

In anticipation of a meeting on designing a mobile version of the TeachingHistory.org site for which I spearheaded the redesign, I’ve been reading Luke Wroblewski’s Mobile First book. This graphic, which appears in an excerpt at A List Apart, is priceless in summing up the all-too-frequent disconnect between content creators and end users. [Aside: It is often easier to find something on the GMU website via a Google search than by going to the site’s home page.]

The Popular Romance Project is a Wordpress blog I designed based on a theme from Organic Themes. It just made its public launch on Monday, in time for Valentine’s Day, appropriately enough. The site is a gathering place for readers, writers, and scholars of romance in popular culture, and highlights the documentary film project of Laurie Kahn, director of the award-winning Tupperware! and other films exploring the unsung worlds of women.

The Popular Romance Project is a Wordpress blog I designed based on a theme from Organic Themes. It just made its public launch on Monday, in time for Valentine’s Day, appropriately enough.

The site is a gathering place for readers, writers, and scholars of romance in popular culture, and highlights the documentary film project of Laurie Kahn, director of the award-winning Tupperware! and other films exploring the unsung worlds of women.

How to spice up your menus with css3, a cool effect and easy-to-follow tutorial from the excellent site Codrops. The illustration in the demo pictured above is from Bartosz Kosowski.

How to spice up your menus with css3, a cool effect and easy-to-follow tutorial from the excellent site Codrops. The illustration in the demo pictured above is from Bartosz Kosowski.

Design Work Life

I just discovered this wonderful inspiration catalogue while trying to track down the designers behind Emporium Pies (that being Foundry Collective, at least based on looking at Emporium Pie’s style sheet). 

A section of a single-page website full of animations and fun illustrations. 

A section of a single-page website full of animations and fun illustrations. 

In the past couple of years, we’ve gone through a lot of trends (clichés?) in web design, from the web 2.0 gradient fills and lighting effects to the use of grunge textures and huge type. Ismael Burciaga’s blog, to me, deftly incorporates the spirit of those trends but with an original and elegant spin: Burlap textures, stripes, a shadow on the boxes holding images, and a nice use of transparency for the post titles. I’m in love.

In the past couple of years, we’ve gone through a lot of trends (clichés?) in web design, from the web 2.0 gradient fills and lighting effects to the use of grunge textures and huge type. Ismael Burciaga’s blog, to me, deftly incorporates the spirit of those trends but with an original and elegant spin: Burlap textures, stripes, a shadow on the boxes holding images, and a nice use of transparency for the post titles.

I’m in love.