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Thursday, November 19th, 2009

In Brief

When re:motion designs con­tacted me, they were in quite a pickle. They had just been con­tacted by TIME mag­a­zine to be fea­tured in an arti­cle about the 50 Top Inven­tions of the Year, so they only had 13 days to get a new web­site up to receive the onslaught of traf­fic that was sure to come after being fea­tured in the TIME arti­cle. Their old web­site was serv­ing as okay place­holder, giv­ing basic infor­ma­tion about their team and mis­sion, but it did not accu­rately rep­re­sent their ideals and per­son­al­ity, and was clearly dated, fea­tur­ing 1995 era visu­als and web typog­ra­phy. It wasn’t pro­vid­ing great access to the infor­ma­tion that peo­ple would try to get to quickly on the site, and wasn’t suc­ceed­ing in steer­ing peo­ple to a way they could get involved with the mis­sion of the team. After a week and a half of research and gath­er­ing mate­ri­als for the redesign (and study­ing for my midterms), I pumped out the new site in its cur­rent form in brand spank­ing new HTML5. Its the fastest I’ve ever com­pleted a project (18 hours spread over 2 days), but I’m sat­is­fied with the result. The site is still evolv­ing, but the first ver­sion (.5) is live and ready for view­ing.

Design Process

School is still keep­ing me extremely busy, so I’ll be flesh­ing out this sec­tion with a full descrip­tion some­time dur­ing win­ter vacation.