Arizona Indicators
October 2008
Site Design by Brittany Smiley
This site was created during my time with the Institute for Social Science Research at ASU during my summer internship. Please note that I did not design this site. Credit for the site design goes to Brittany Smiley, who was an absolute pleasure to work with. This site was a redesign for the existing Arizona Indicators site.
The Design
Brittany's redesign was intended to create a look that represented Arizona and pulled the natural colors of the landscape. She also picked images to go with the main page for each category to give a visual representation. The animated swf on the front page was done by me at the request of the client. The first iteration of this site incldued a Flash carousel, which I customized with Actionscript 3 and XML integration.
The Development
My part in this design was to re-code the existing site to fit with the new design. Luckily, the existing code was standards-compliant and saved me the step of cleaning up any bad code. Along with adapting the XHTML content and CSS, I also added accessiblity to this site for hearing-impaired, visual-impaired, and color blind users. My boss, Brittany, and I worked together to figure out usability issues for the design. The menu system, also, was done by my boss. Although I am no longer a part o this project, I am happy that I was able to be a part of such an impactful redesign.
