After our recent design success of the new NHS Hampshire site we were invited back again to design a new intranet for the county.
Having had several meetings discussing the needs of every user within NHS Hampshire we worked with a very detailed brief and wire-frames to create a design that fulfilled every requirement which has exceeded all of their expectations.
One of Hampshire’s most successful businesses Elderberry Bridesmaids needed to expand their business online and take advantage of the huge gap left in the online market place for bridesmaids dresses and accessories.
The design of the e-commerce site was of paramount importance as it had to appeal to the style-savvy clientele that are accustomed to Elderberry Bridesmaids. The site we have created uses the great visual photography already used through the store, and to create a place for inspiration and information keeping visitors browsing, buying and coming back for more.
Crowdsourcing is a term for using lots of amateurs to achieve a goal for a company or organisation, usually for very little money.
For example: A company puts a brief out to a community of individuals (in this case designers), lets them know how much they wish to pay for the end result and waits for a response - if something comes in they wish to use, they only pay the person that came up with that idea.
So with the Future of Web Design over we have a look back at yesterday’s event and what we took away from it. There was a lot going on at this year’s event, from talks about typography on the web, tearing up the rule book when designing for clients through to a great talk about designing effective mobile interfaces.
Held at Kensington Town Hall, London, the event was a huge success pulling in some big names in the industry, and all credit to the guys at Carsonified for putting together a great day of speakers.
Monday saw the public release of Atebits.com Tweetie for Mac, the big brother to the already successful Tweetie iPhone App which for many is considered the best Twitter client on the market.
As a desktop client it has some stiff competition to the already very successful TweetDeck but we’ve been playing around with Tweetie the past few days and let’s just say we are very impressed with the new app and it looks like it’ll be our new favorite here. The interface is sleek and oozes transitions and design ques all over the shop. It’s perfect for the Mac and Atebits seem to have hit the nail on the head as it really does look as if Apple would have created it themselves. But, and yes there is a but, it’s not perfect, yet.
