April, 2011
Atelier Mayer
POSTED IN Portfolio, Project Management, User Experience April 19, 2011
_The Brief
As a unique start-up, catering solely for the high-end vintage fashion market, Atelier Mayer tasked my agency with creating an ecommerce solution that would accentuate the quality and style of the brand, whilst providing a comprehensive and easy-to-use interface that would become the first port of call for users wanting to find out more about vintage fashion.
_The Solution
The emphasis of the Atelier Mayer brand is on quality. The vintage pieces showcased on this site are predominantly one off pieces from some of the world’s most desired fashion labels.
As a result, categorisation and indexing of products within the site could not rely solely on garment types, designer labels or standard sizing charts. Taking this into consideration, we conceptualised a flash based interactive dressing room, where the user can input their various dimensions, and a list of all relevant items is returned from the database.
Furthermore, Atelier Mayer also wanted to be positioned as a central resource for all things relating to vintage fashion. To this end, the site features in depth information on all designers and icons that have items featured on the site, as well as an interactive video wall, where users can view footage of the latest vintage fashion news and interviews.
A lot of attention was given to optimising the checkout process of the site, as it was established through research that the main target audience would likely be less tech savvy and need more reassurance when entering their credit card details.
_The Result.
Atelier Mayer now have a highly active and successful online store, featuring some of the most sought-after vintage fashion items. The site features a comprehensive and in depth search function, and easy categorisation allows obscure and unique pieces to be easily found on the site.
The site can be viewed at www.atelier-mayer.com
Kay Cooks
POSTED IN Front End, Portfolio, Project Management April 18, 2011
The bubbly chef asked VI to produce an exciting and interactive website to showcase her love for cooking, and travels across Thailand and South East Asia. My role on this project included Information Architecture, HTML and CSS and Project Management.
Random Bubbles of Love
POSTED IN Blog, Lab April 10, 2011
This is one of my favourite sketches so far: Random bubbles popping up all over the screen. You don’t even need to do anything, you can just sit and stare. To me this is what makes Processing so appealing. Looking forward to creating more random beauty… but better!
Color changes and fades
POSTED IN Blog, Lab April 10, 2011
So two things – the WP plugin doesn’t play nicely if you try to place to sketches in one post. That means I’ll be making lots of little posts. Oh well.
And, this sketch shows some basic color fades depending on the position of the mouse, and whether the mouse is clicked. Try it. Its fun.
Processing.js installed! It’s inline bitches!
POSTED IN Blog, Lab April 10, 2011
EDIT: Although I can’t fault the processing.js WP Plugin from Keyvan, I recently changed my WP theme to one that is very JS intensive, and since then I have not been able to run pretty much any plug-ins on the site. It’s very sad, but a sacrifice I am willing to make at this stage in light of keeping things simple. So I am moving all my processing sketches over to the HTML version of processing.js. Same thing really, you’re just not viewing it inside my WP site.
I just installed this rad plugin from Keyvan Minoukadeh. It allows you to run Processing sketches rightin your WP posts. Which is super easy, and means you don’t have to deal with the lag caused by running your processing sketches through the Java engine.
Look at Limebot take off, lights flashing and all!
LIMEBOT can move!
POSTED IN Blog, Lab April 2, 2011
Fascinating isn’t it just! CHECK HIM
