Other Projects
For everything that falls in between. . .
Project Overview
Sometimes a project doesn't have as much to talk about, or doesn't take a long, or doesn't fit into any particular category, but I'm still pretty darn proud of how it turned out.
I've put those all together here for you to read about.
I've put those all together here for you to read about.
Pen & Paper
"I want to give personal, memorable wedding gifts to my friends and family, but I'm a broke design student with access to some limited materials in the studio. What could I do?"
During my most financially-challenging college days, when I wanted to give cost-effective presents to friends and family who were getting married or having children, I had to get creative and tried to use all the assets at my disposal in the university product design lab. Art tables, 3D printers and drawing tablets quickly became my go-to sources for personalised cards and framed artwork that showed that extra effort gave me some excellent art practice, and all without having to compromise on my food budget!🍔
During my most financially-challenging college days, when I wanted to give cost-effective presents to friends and family who were getting married or having children, I had to get creative and tried to use all the assets at my disposal in the university product design lab. Art tables, 3D printers and drawing tablets quickly became my go-to sources for personalised cards and framed artwork that showed that extra effort gave me some excellent art practice, and all without having to compromise on my food budget!🍔
SocialTalent Menu
"Our business is expanding with new offerings every month and our current dropdown menu doesn't allow users to access them all easily. How can we fix that?"
One of my final handovers to the development team at SocialTalent was collating a new sitemap and business
structure into an easy-to-understand menu system, following examples from market leaders in e-learning such as Asana and Coursera. The redesign had to also use and maintain the design tokens built and maintained by the dev team, as well as match their inconography, and introduce a new, friendlier communication style for the navigation.
Improvements I made included a footer bar for consistent CTAs, full-width margins for easier hover navigation and reduce visual clutter, and more appealing CTAs in more prime positions for specialist, time-sensitive projects.
Below is the current layout and my proposed redesign
One of my final handovers to the development team at SocialTalent was collating a new sitemap and business
structure into an easy-to-understand menu system, following examples from market leaders in e-learning such as Asana and Coursera. The redesign had to also use and maintain the design tokens built and maintained by the dev team, as well as match their inconography, and introduce a new, friendlier communication style for the navigation.
Improvements I made included a footer bar for consistent CTAs, full-width margins for easier hover navigation and reduce visual clutter, and more appealing CTAs in more prime positions for specialist, time-sensitive projects.
Below is the current layout and my proposed redesign
Europol Visitor's Package
"We want visitors to have a quick reference to everything we do, a high-quality gift, and marketing opportunity all rolled into one."
The basis of all modern interfaces are founded on the premises and affordances developed on print design principles. Projects like this one at the start of my career helped develop a sense of page flow, margin spacing, typography and colour theory. many of these sensibilities directly translate to Web and UI design.
The purpose of the Europol visitor’s box was to provide official public guests with a small, friendly, accessible overview of Europol’s structure, history and most up-to-date data. It contained:
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- Short summaries of each of Europol’s major publications that year
- A pen & notepad
- A Europol badge
- A small desk calendar
I was tasked with developing the visual design using the copy text and example provided by an external agency, consistent with the branding guidelines but also with the freedom to differentiate each one, with feedback and sign-off from the head of communications.
The basis of all modern interfaces are founded on the premises and affordances developed on print design principles. Projects like this one at the start of my career helped develop a sense of page flow, margin spacing, typography and colour theory. many of these sensibilities directly translate to Web and UI design.
The purpose of the Europol visitor’s box was to provide official public guests with a small, friendly, accessible overview of Europol’s structure, history and most up-to-date data. It contained:
‍
- Short summaries of each of Europol’s major publications that year
- A pen & notepad
- A Europol badge
- A small desk calendar
I was tasked with developing the visual design using the copy text and example provided by an external agency, consistent with the branding guidelines but also with the freedom to differentiate each one, with feedback and sign-off from the head of communications.
#DailyUI
Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow. - Doug Firebaugh,
#DailyUI is such a simple concept, it’s almost annoying. Every day, Monday to Friday, you’re emailed a prompt with which to build a quick interface design, and share it with the community. The challenge is to keep on top of the prompts for the full 100 days, and see just how much you improve. It's not quite in the same league as Mike "Beeple" Winklemann who has created a new digital artwork every day for the past 14 years and counting, but it's a start.
I’m always looking for new programs to stay ahead of current design trends. With new prototyping tools and techniques being developed almost daily, I can’t afford to wait and let the opportunity find me. This was instrumental in quickly developing and expanding my skillset and prototyping speed, and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a fulfilling way to better themselves.
To reenforce my accountability towards finishing the project, I made sure to publicly post each one to my one of my social media accounts, leading to further freelance projects.
#DailyUI is such a simple concept, it’s almost annoying. Every day, Monday to Friday, you’re emailed a prompt with which to build a quick interface design, and share it with the community. The challenge is to keep on top of the prompts for the full 100 days, and see just how much you improve. It's not quite in the same league as Mike "Beeple" Winklemann who has created a new digital artwork every day for the past 14 years and counting, but it's a start.
I’m always looking for new programs to stay ahead of current design trends. With new prototyping tools and techniques being developed almost daily, I can’t afford to wait and let the opportunity find me. This was instrumental in quickly developing and expanding my skillset and prototyping speed, and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a fulfilling way to better themselves.
To reenforce my accountability towards finishing the project, I made sure to publicly post each one to my one of my social media accounts, leading to further freelance projects.
Figma UX Design Challenge - Merck
“What if manufacturing technicians could use mobile apps, not to track or monitor their work, but to more easily accomplish it?”
Using Figma, I was asked to propose the interface design of an app that would automate and humanise a manufacturing process for a German chemical engineering company as a freelance project. The initial quality assurance sheet was supplied, but since I had no access to the final users/technicians, I had limited feedback on my design to encourage safety, responsibility and clarity across cultures and languages.
Using Figma, I was asked to propose the interface design of an app that would automate and humanise a manufacturing process for a German chemical engineering company as a freelance project. The initial quality assurance sheet was supplied, but since I had no access to the final users/technicians, I had limited feedback on my design to encourage safety, responsibility and clarity across cultures and languages.
