Designing for ReallyWorried
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ReallyWorried proved to be an opportunity for us to put our knowledge of the best (and worst) practices in blogging and online social networking to good use and at the same time create a fresh, vibrant design.
It was also an opportunity for us to collaborate with the talented branding and icon designer Jon Hicks.
Our role was to create a series of detailed layout designs, that began life as pencil sketches and simple grey box wireframes. We also created the site's user interface and designed a visitor's experience when using the site, adding interactivity to the rich visual design.
A large part of our design process for ReallyWorried took place in a web browser, rather than in the more traditional design environments of Adobe Photoshop or Fireworks.
Working with meaningful, accessible markup and CSS sooner reduced the time needed for the project, eliminated wasted effort and saved money in the process.
We delivered a series of fully working markup and CSS prototypes, plus a tool-kit of elements including styles and source graphics to the client's development team who developed the functionality of the site.
The final result is a site with a vibrant personality, strong branding and a highly developed user-interface; all designed and developed in under eight weeks.
Web Standards Creativity
Sometimes coincedences can get a little spooky. Almost three years ago, we designed a fictitious worrying site called WorrySome. The idea was simple. Why worry about crime, conspiracy theories or George W. Bush, when you can pay someone to do it for you? So we created the design for an e-commerce style site where worries could be added to your basket as easily as cornflakes. We even got as far as creating prototype web pages when we realised that the idea was just too silly and we consigned WorrySome to the archives.
But you can't keep a silly idea down and the design for WorrySome found its way into interactive training materials such as Lynda.com's CSS For Designers. It also squeezed into Andy Clarke's chapter on Designing Outside The Box for the book Web Standards Creativity, published in 2007 by Friends Of Ed.
Help is on hand in the form of a new service called WorrySome.net. This will not be your common or garden-variety web application, with enough venture capital to mount a small war and a call center in New Delhi.
So will WorrySome be seen again? Possibly, but it won't be soon, and when if it does it will appear with a shiny new design. Don't worry about that.
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