Origin Design
Link: origindesign.co.nz
Size: 100+ pages
My professional status: contractor and then employee at Origin Design
Website client: Origin Design
Dates: January 2001 - November 2003
Brief: to develop, rebuild and improve on the existing Origin site, and to bring an added level of ideas and cool stuff to the site.
My responsibilities included:
- Checking and improving on the existing HTML on the site
- Planning new sections, adding pages to existing sections - HTML, DHTML, popups, JavaScript, graphics, Flash
- Development and creation of an interactive Flash animation for the Environ section of the website, where I followed the designers's storyboard skeches and created some elements (like the spinning house) in 3D animation software before bringing it into Flash
- Advising Origin designers on the technical aspects of the site.
We worked on this site when we weren't building sites for our clients - which wasn't very often, so work tended to get done piecemeal - but we were constantly thinking up new and funky bits to add to the site - and ways in which we could utilise the website even more fully as a customer service tool. In three years we redesigned and changed aspects of the architecture and navigation three times - it was a never-ending refinement process.
