Neighborhood Site

  • Team : Somos Logan Square - Community Org
  • Tools : Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, MSPaint, Great Company
  • Tech : WordPress, PHP, JS, HTML, CSS
  • Brief : Somos Logan Square needed a website to showcase its goals as a community organization.
  • Role : Design facilitator, programmer.
  • Duration : Ongoing

First Try

Our first attempt was a group effort, utilizing the ideas and wishes of many contributing group-members and the graphic design of a wonderful local artist. Below are some images of rough ideation we did together.

 

Community members ultimately felt that the right-aligned menu did not feel like a real navigation interface.  So, we redesigned!

 

Second (Current) Iteration

The current site is a collaboration between group leaders who distilled community desire into a cohesive vision for this site.

Successes

We feel that the calls-to-action on this site are particularly prominent, and that the colorscheme is bold and unusual.

Lessons

Scalability of unusal UI is a bit difficult to plan.  We have a lot of custom media queries to manage the responsiveness of this site.  Planning this ahead a bit better would make for cleaner code.