Blackboard Help

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Produced on contract with Friendly Design, the Blackboard Help site is designed to help frustrated users to quickly and easily find answers to their questions.

Responsively designed, the site looks its best regardless of device or browser size. Users are able to quickly locate solutions to their problems just as easily on their phone and tablet as on their computer.

A complicated beast providing documentation for numerous products, the Blackboard Help site required an intensive information architecture and user experience phase which preceeded visual design.

Involvement

Information architecture
User experience design
Visual design
Front-end development
Client and project management

Technologies

Responsive design
Drupal 8
Javascript / jQuery
SASS

Blackboard Help article page
Blackboard Help article page
Blackboard Help article page
Blackboard Help article page

Random Nerds

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Blogs are a dime a dozen. As the new kid on the block, Random Nerds needed a website that set them apart while simultaneously offering an extremely simple and streamlined user experience.

Produced with Friendly Design, the Random Nerds site provides users with a whimsical yet elegant reading experience that focuses on providing authors the tools they need to present their story in the best manner possible.

The Random Nerds brand reflects the company's ethos. In some way, everyone is a bit of a nerd. This isn't something to be ashamed of; being a nerd should be a point of pride. Thus their logo acts as a signature, a mark of ownership and confidence on everything they post.

Involvement

Branding
Interactive strategy
User experience design
Visual design

Technologies

Responsive design
WordPress

Random Nerds article page
Random Nerds article page

Sequence Storm

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As a side project, I helped an indie game developer design and brand his PC rhythm game. It was recently greenlit on Steam Greenlight and will be released on Steam at some point in the future.

Involvement

Branding
Visual design
Client and project management

Sequence Storm game screen
Sequence Storm song select screen

Interactive Design & Front-End Development

Hello! My name is Ian Hamilton and I build things on the Internet. For more than a decade I have designed, built and maintained extremely usable and beautiful online presences for dozens of local, national and international clients.

I create simple, clean, precisely designed websites and mobile experiences that communicate clearly with target audiences. I code things the right way, testing to ensure your product looks just as good on a phone or tablet as it does on a desktop computer.

When I developed my first website back in 2001 I fell in love with pixels and code. Classically trained in the arts, I pair my technical know-how with a visually pleasing aesthetic that will help you, your organization or your project put its best foot forward.

Have a question? Want to work together?

Let’s chat! Shoot me an email at ian@colorcrate.com. I’m happy to discuss your project, spitball ideas or talk about your favorite color (mine’s red).

703-879-8861