Portfolio
Below is an outline of various projects I've worked on from most recently.
• Firstgiving homepage redesign − Alongside working for Justgiving.com, I regularly do work for the office in Boston,
America. One of the most recent projects was to redesign their homepage with based on the UK redesign.
I also was part of a small team that went Boston to work with Creative Good to look at improving the UX (user experience) of Firstgiving. It was an
amazing insight into usability, learning about human interaction with a websites and email.
(HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Illustrator)
• Justgiving homepage redesign − A number of iterations were designed for the homepage (available on request), some of these with very open briefs and others with very carefully broken down briefs. I worked on the design and implementation to ensure that the site worked as best as possible for asphetics, accessibility, usability and search engines. The foundation of this site was to ensure markup both intelligent and clear for users and spiders alike. (HTML/editing ASP, CSS, Photoshop, Illustrator)
• Justgiving about us redesign − Since joining the company, I'd set up a Flickr stream for the company as a base for stock images and for the 'about us' section of the site. The latest iteration of this page used a number of photos from there. (HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Illustrator)
• Online donation sites − Part of my work at Justgiving involved setting up and maintaining various different online donation sites. Clients such as Jamie Oliver's 15 foundation, Tesco, Oxfam and various others used these microsites for collecting money from their supporters. (HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Fireworks)
• Personal fundraising pages − I also worked on PFP sites for charities and companies such as the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, Oxfam, Tescos, the British Red Cross, BT, Deloitte and many others. In total in the space of a year I design and created 60 sites. (HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Fireworks)
• Partygaming Freelance designer role − Following university I landed my first job with Party Gaming, working on banner adverts for various different countries around the world. It was an amazing experience to work with such a creative and mixed group of individuals from all over the world. (Flash, Fireworks, ImageReady, Photoshop)
• Portfolio illustrative design − This was one of my older site designs, which had more of an illustrative and creative look than I tend to go for now. (HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Fireworks)
• Illustration work − Part of my hobby and at university was to use my wacom tablet to draw and render 2d illustrations. More of these can be found on my flickr site. (HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Fireworks)
• Teesside physio therapy website − I built during my final year at university a simple website for the Teesside Physio therapy department. The project spanned over the course of a few weeks. (HTML, CSS, Photoshop)
• Dark as games design gui − Part of my games design course was to design and then build a games GUI in flash. This was the very first time I'd thought very careful about user interaction and how a GUI requires being simple and clean. (HTML, CSS, Flash, Fireworks)
• 3d Model of a haunted house − At university I would have low poly counts to build up realistic looking buildings. Building and texture models. (3d Studio Max, Photoshop)
• Object modelling − More modelling of objects. (3d Studio Max, Photoshop)