HIGHER EDUCATION WEBSITE DESIGN/PRODUCTION
I led the design, art direction, and front-end development of more than 20+ Department websites for the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Alabama during my time there as a Digital Art Director. Having a small team of designers and developers, we were able to optimize the production of each custom build CMS website to record-breaking times.
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Multiple Departmental Websites
Several different reasons made us build and utilize a modular framework approach which was supported by a grid system, a lot of components, styling for many HTML elements from typography to buttons, as well as support of JavaScript plugins. The framework became even more powerful as we continue to build more features, components, and modules.
The components from the Pattern Library were accompanied by a Content Style Manual, which defined how materials should be assembled within the utilized Pattern Library elements. As you can see below, all of these custom layouts are derived from the same framework, which has significantly improved production efficiencies.
Below you can see a very specific blueprint right before development. These elements were being built and tested before, they were added to the master library as new features.
More items from the library in varying High and Low fidelity stages.
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Process was defined to cut down production time.
Following the initial material submission from the partner, the timeline to produce a custom dynamic website was brought down to between 8 weeks. Always starting from a basic skeleton wireframe that contains a front page, feature selection, basic interior layout, and primary nav. then move on to adding-on custom features.