Scene setting:

As a design consultant, my tasks was to design and develop a small website for a sculptor and jewellery designer. Along with the design a development of the website, my task was also to design a new logo.

Branding:

As part of the branding process the following steps were taken before the final concepts were presented to client:

• Brainstorm logo concepts (pen & paper sketches)
• Select best three
• Recreate digital versions (in black & white only)
• Present final three concepts to client
• Decide on final concept
• Make necessary refinements
• Define colour palette

Website Design:

As part of the design process, the following steps were taken before the designs were finalised:

• Develop a site map based on the hierarchal order of importance
• Develop a series of wireframes
• Low to high fidelity designs presented to client and iterate based on client feedback

Website high fidelity designs:

Low fidelity prototype was signed off before high fidelity designs were crafted.

Accessibility:

To ensure the design was accessible to all users, I ensured that the product complied with the industry's web content accessibility guidelines including:

• Text size: large enough to be legible
• Content: images and text are not cropped or outside the user's viewport
• Contrast: ensure there is enough contrast ratio between the foreground and background of text
• Responsive: ensure the product is accessible on different screen sizes
• Hierarchy: ensure that the interface can be navigated using the keyboard.

I hand coded the website using HTML, SCSS, Vanilla Javascript, PHP, and Wordpress. The website was built in a local environment before being migrated to a staging site on the client's live server where final changes were requested and signed off before launch.

Post launch: I provide ongoing maintenance of website and database and ensuring security measures and regular updates are performed.