Designing for University of Liverpool
Stuff and Nonsense created a really special design, listened closely to our brief and contributed greatly with new coding techniques and creative ideas.
University Of Liverpool
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When we were commissioned by the University of Liverpool to redesign their home page, we were soon aware that this would be no run-of-the-mill university project.
The university staff came prepared with mood-boards and examples of sites that they liked and disliked. One thing was clear, our design would be different from the onscreen prospectus so common on university web sites.
As part of its rebranding, the University of Liverpool had also transformed its Precinct Magazine for staff, with a strong and contemporary layout design.
We took several of the Precinct design themes, combined them with colours from the new branding and extended them with stronger lines and overlapping content areas.
After discussing the brief we decided to take the unusual steps of working alongside their onsite developers and abandoning technology by making layout designs on paper before moving directly into designing within the web browser.
This proved to be a highly effective way of reducing time and wasted resources and meant that we could experiment with layout ideas quickly and easily, often by changing only a few lines of code in our stylesheets.
The finished result is a contemporary, minimal design that maintains a focus on the university's current, active content. We are extremely proud of the result and of the wonderful feedback that we have received from the University of Liverpool's staff and students.
The layout allows for flexibility in text sizes and amounts as well as a range of image sizes and was accomplished using a combination of meaningful, accessible markup, stylesheets and JavaScript to tailor the layout to varying window sizes.
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