Beautiful user experiences
Beautiful user experiences
Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC)
A requirement of the Advanced Practice in Interactive and Visual Design Masters course was to design an interactive design fiction (futuristic) concept for the Brisbane International Airport, that would create a sense of place and surprise and delight passengers in the terminal.
Two concepts were designed (1 for Arrivals and 1 for Departures). Both conepts used augmented reality glass panels to project realistic images of Australian wildlife atop of real scenarios.
I performed all research including case studies of technology and airport concepts, as well as a contextual analysis of the airport and its various environments.
I designed the interactive concept, as well as accompanying design specification posters.
I was awarded a group to assist me in creating a video prototype of the concept, which was presented to BAC. My role in the making of the video prototype included filming, chromakey, animation and video editing.
A requirement of the User Experience Design Masters course was to design a user experience from ideation to prototype.
Twitchin is an app for twitchers aka birdwatchers. It is designed to help twitchers spend less time fussing over books and notes, and more time enjoying the birds. With one tap of the twitch button, Twitchin records sound, geolocation and the time of the twitch. The idea is that one twitch equals one sighting. Making it easier for a twitcher to identify birds, because they don't have to rely on memory alone. Future iterations would include sound and image recognition technologies to perform bird identification.
This project will continue to prototype stage.
For the initial concept design I created a website, photographed the app in the field for context, developed user scenarios and performed competitive research.
For the final submission, I developed a html prototype and design documentation, including wireframes, use cases, interaction diagrams, technical, functional and UX design considerations and specifications, and visual design and branding guidelines.
Bent Books is a second hand bookstore in Brisbane's vibrant West End
The client required an online presence that would compliment the store's eclectic feel as well as a blog for posting news about the store and its stock.
We used Wordpress as the CMS framework and created a custom theme using HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery.
Jane Barry is a parenting expert and midwife
The client wanted a site where she could provide parenting advice, perform product reviews and act as a vehicle to increase her consulting and copywriting work.
We used Wordpress as the CMS framework and created a custom theme using HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery.
The Wilderness Lodge is a community-based eco-tourism lodge on the remote island of Gatokae in the Western Province of the Solomon Islands.
The client was undergoing a major revamp of accommodation at the Lodge, adding boutique bungalows to their traditional lodge accommodation. They required a complete redesign of their existing website, to cater for their new more upmarket clientele.
They had a huge amount of quality photographs at their disposal, so we decided that the site should really showcase those and that a simple portfolio style design would be most appropriate.
We used HTML5, CSS3 and Flash for the image galleries.
Kay S Lawrence is a fine artist who exhibits widely in Australia and Internationally.
The client required a site that she could use as her portfolio and to advertise upcoming projects, exhibitions and news. Kay needed to be able to update the site herself and wanted something minimal that would really showcase her art.
The site was built using the Wordpress platform and a custom HTML5 theme was designed.
Natural Home & Living is an online store that sells organic and sustainable household, personal and baby products.
The client required a fully functional online store that would reflect the natural lifestyle that their products promote.
The store needed to be able to handle a multitude of product categories, specials, discount vouchers, shipping and inventory tracking.
We used Wordpress for the framework and created a custom theme using HTML5 and CSS3. Woocommerce was used for the store functionality.
Teams Training are a training education and management services provider in the New England area of NSW.
The client required a completely new website to give their business a web presence.
They required a clean, professional looking site that could be easily navigated to find course information and reduce their office enquiries workload.
We used HTML5 and CSS3.
Virginia Auto is an auto electrician workshop, located in Brisbane's north.
The client required an online presence that emphasised their work in classic car restoration.
We used Wordpress as the CMS framework and created a custom responsive single page theme using HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery.
Yorb is an environmental consultancy and software house whose primary business involves developing modelling applications for the management of Australian rivers.
The client had no previous web presence and needed to be able to showcase their very sophisticated tools in a very simple way so that the complexity would not deter visitors. They also needed to be able to update content themselves.
The site was built on the Wordpress blogging platform and a custom HTML5 theme was designed.