interface design

Case Study: Just Salad

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When Just Salad came to Command C for a full redesign, their site needed some updating and cohesion. Based on an old-school computer game feel, it was cute and kitschy, but distractingly busy in concentrated areas, leaving a lot of dead visual space. Our first major revision was to make the site responsive, so it would translate well to mobile browsers and focus on the essentials for those users: menus, orders, locations. The mobile view also leverages geolocating and Google Maps to find the location closest to the user. Next, we added a pretty sweet Google maps integration so customers … read more

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Responsive Web Design 102

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Last week we touched on the very basic basics of responsive web design, i.e. what exactly it is and why you probably want it for your site.  Now let’s go over what it involves. Responsive web design isn’t just about changing the display size of a page, since that would do nothing to facilitate user experience (UX) on mobile platforms.  Responsive design’s most important element is the design, not just development or building.  The information on the page has to be scaled just like the display does: the most important elements on the page have to be identified, and those … read more

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the brookeside group

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client: the brookeside group project: Full-scope redesign and development project for successful international client relations firm. This project included rebranding, UI/UX, and custom development on the WordPress platform. strategy: Create a fresh and cohesive look and feel that communicates the accessibility and professionalism of the company. Leverage WordPress’ flexibility to create unique page templates for each interface. Strategically place testimonials and calls to action, establishing trust and offering a guided-path user experience. solution: Custom WordPress solution, unified look and feel, with each page being unique. Additionally, we built a custom demo plugin, allowing users to register for demos directly through the website. Plugin built … read more

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Greenpointers

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client: greenpointers.com project: Create new brand and website for local Greenpoint community blog. strategy: Design a fun, vibrant, social-sharing loaded site leveraging the WordPress plugin community. solution: Social media-ized, easy-to-update site with custom build calendar plugin with monthly, weekly and daily views. We also built a custom directory system and made lots of ad space to leverage potential revenue for client.

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remindo

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client: remindo project: Design the interface for the logged-in state of this office intranet app. strategy: Consolidate information architecture, aiming for as few page transitions as possible. Leverage modal and collapsable windows to keep interface clean, but all actions easily accessible. Utilize a neutral color scheme that echoed the product’s brand, but allowed for each organization to customize their interface to match their company. solution: Clean, hierarchical architecture with all core functionality on one screen.

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relativity

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client: relativity project: We were brought on by SMKK Studios to help re-imagine the interface design and information architecture for this successful e-discovery software website. strategy: The goal was to offer a guided-path experience to high priority content areas, while reaffirming the company’s brand and delivering content in a clear, navigable manner. solution: With the collaborative effort of two studios, we were able to leverage our skills and create a site that’s greater than the sum of its parts. Working with other creative agencies is one of our favorite things. *This project was a collaboration with SMKK Studios

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Recent Work

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We’re right smack in the middle of a number of really, really fun projects right now, but here’s a peak at a couple we recently squeezed out the door. Remindo is an office intranet app that allows members of a company to share messages, files, milestones, a calendar, chat, and much more. They hired us to design the logged-in interface, saying that they wanted to be the “Apple of Intranet”.  Our goal was to make all functionality easily accessible on one interface– we wanted to minimize the number of screens to as few as possible. With this in mind, we … read more

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fly.com

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client: fly.com project: We were hired by Fly.com to re-imagine the standard flight search site and process. strategy: Come up with three different versions of the interface: one that is similar to the existing site with some small improvements, one middle ground version and one completely re-imagined departure. solution: Above are the three different ideas we came up with. Each version is intended to have a graduated page-load, whereby content would appear on the page in order of importance.

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career portrait

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client: career portrait project: Develop website design and brand identity for established career development software company. strategy: Modernize the look of the brand, giving it a clear visual voice and language, without overpowering the product itself. Balance. solution: A new logo, color palette and interface design that’s simple, sophisticated and branded.

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