Week 469

It’s been a good week so far, if busy and a little fragmented. I’m due to be getting a chunky bit of design completed describing the main elements of the project I’m working on.

I did a sprint last week to so an applied example to a specific product, now I’m wireframing up a generic “enhanced” product with very broad visual cues of how it could be presented.

I don’t think we’re going to be massively tough enforcing the presentation layer but it’s good to have a strong vanilla framework to fall back on in cases where time or resources get squeezed.

We have a product suite which this stuff falls into the top end of, so another little task is to better define visual language across this suite - product labels that can describe the scope and depth of the experience while feeling solid when presented together, each one dipping into a bag of icons describing specific features.

This is primarily a graphics job, and I’m probably not the best person to do it but do need to get an hour to write the brief. Also on my plate is a much pared down homepage for the main company site, which isn’t as big a deal as you may imagine. What we end up doing with it may surprise a few people by it’s simplicity but it makes sense. And it will be very very clean as I’m hoping to base it on the excellent Basic Maths theme by Khoi Vinh which should also condense development time significantly.