Nigel Skeels - Portfolio
Usability
Usability
Good usability is about understanding who the user is, what their needs are, and how they think about achieving their goals.
Once these factors are understood, this knowledge can be placed at the center of the design process, so that the end product matches the real requirements of the users.
Virgin - Electric! Ezine
Client:Virgin media, Redwood Group
Brief:Ongoing contract as Senior Flash developer to build monthly Ceros based ezine for Virgin media.
The ezine features much interactivity including various games and interactive features, these are programmed using flash actionscript and extended features of the Ceros platform API.
Estee Lauder iMatch
Client: Estee Lauder iMatch, on handbag.com, cosmopolitan.co.uk and allaboutyou.co.uk
Brief: Design and build a creative advertorial page to promote the iMatch foundation cosmetics service. The advertorial featured video and interactivity to inform the user about how service iMatch works.
Year in style carousel and voting
Client:Handbag.com
Brief: Build an image coverflow carousel with voting functionality to encourage users to view an image gallery.
The gallery needed to record page impressions on each click without reloading the entire page.
Lovely winter sparkle - Sarah Jessica Parker
Client:Coty perfumes, Handbag
Brief:Design and program an interactive microsite page to showcase the new Sarah Jessica Parker titled Lovely Winter Sparkle perfume.
TK Maxx - Get the look for less
Client:Handbag.com, TK Maxx
Brief:Design and program an interactive microsite page to showcase weekly fashion videos.
The videos should also be able to trigger sychronised accompanying media such as images and animated zooms of products, and keep a running total of the garments featured.
Philadelphia - A touch of inspiration
Client: Philadelphia - Kraft Foods
Kraft foods producer of Philadelphia spreadable cheese
Brief: Produce a promotional microsite giving users a 'Touch of inspiration'. This comes from a selection on recipes and a preview of the new recipe cookbook. Users can flick through the pages using a custom built flash based interactive book.
Boss of Bosses
Client:Clare Longrigg
Clare Longrigg is a journalist who has written extensively on the Italian mafia in Sicily and New York.
Brief: Design and implement a website to promote the Boss of Bosses book along with the authors other publications. The site should have a design in keeping with the feel of the book and use good SEO to attract visitors. An imported rss feed from another mafia news site is used to keep the content on the pages constantly updated.
Mens Fitness Website
Client: Mens Fitness Magazine
Dennis publishing fitness magazine for Men
Brief: Freshen up existing design to separate the brand from Maxim magazine.
The underlying CMS was to stay the same so that any design work had to take into account some of the limitations of the system.
Ultra Vixens - Social networking site for Bizarre Magazine
Client: Ultra Vixens - Social networking site for Bizarre Magazine the UK's leading alternative lifestyle mag.
Brief: Design graphics and usability walkthroughs for each page of the site. Mobile
