Hi, I’ve been designing brands for over 10 years and developing websites for over 6 years. I designed the logo and identity for io.js which eventually became the new Node.js: http://behance.net/gallery/23269525/IOJS-logo-concept. The logo has been further refined based on feedback and can be seen here along with banners and icons that continue the logo’s theme: http://twitter.com/official_iojs
In addition to Branding & Identity, I work on responsive front-end (Bootstrap/Angular), back-end (Nginx/Node.js/MongoDB), WordPress and iOS app design and development.
The logo has been further refined based on feedback and can be seen here along with banners and icons that continue the logo’s theme: http://twitter.com/official_iojs
In addition to Branding/Identity, I work on responsive front-end development (Bootstrap/Angular), server-side programming (Node/io.js/MongoDB) and iOS app design and development.
I’m the designer of the Brand Identity for io.js [1] I will design an awesome brand and website package for your product/service for 2500 USD in 4 weeks. Package includes...
- 1 logo (I provide 3 options, each with their own presentation)
- 1 Multi-page WordPress website with domain registration, Nginx setup, security and SEO, Contact Form
- 1 landing page optimized for conversion
- 2 social media profile pages, one each for Facebook and Twitter with custom header images and profile avatars
Other skills: full-stack developer on the React/Node.js stack
Because stars in the sky is a high contrast visual. That applies here too, I increased the contrast using Photoshop and the illusion is gone, you can see all 12 dots perfectly fine — http://imgur.com/a/G4xR4
I think they are spot on, outside the fovea, contrast detection capability of our eyes dip drastically thereby blending the dots lying outside the fovea with the surrounding grid. Increase the contrast to the point where even the regions outside the fovea can detect it and the illusion goes away.
I had previously contracted for Infinera working on their NMS suite. My contribution was a PoC running on D3 and Angular, using Semantic Topology that allows users to navigate any node or link in their network with zero clicks (scrolling and panning gets them anywhere à la Google Maps).
The hardest, most time-consuming part was prototyping because the tools out there (Framer, Principle, Quartz Composer, Adobe XD etc) are all optimized to work with lists and grids, not visualisations. I ended up creating three fully-functional prototypes in HTML and JS before finalizing on one. It was hard to get good feedback from the teams without live, interactive prototypes. There is also nothing like a standard library of well-designed components that can be grouped together to quickly mockup custom visualizations, like we have in Bootstrap for HTML frontends.
Another problem was performance; Angular, out-of-the-box, could not keep up with the amount of data coming through their pipes.
All in all, it was challenging and very, very fun to do. When it finally worked and people got their hands on it, it blew everyone away. If I were to do it all over again, I’d focus a lot more on explaining the challenges and setting realistic expectations. Custom visualisations are not 5-minute WordPress installs.
The work is under NDA but if you feel the need to discuss anything, my email is in my profile.
Some people I follow on twitter who are actively involved in DataVis:
Lisa Charlotte Rost (@lisacrost), Micah Stubbs (@micahstubbs), Jim Vallandingham (@vlandham), Nicky Case (@ncasenmare), Nadieh Bremer (@NadiehBremer)
to your point, non-technical should be taught to understand that this is challenging data and graphics programming (which means there is a whole dev cycle associated with it), not photoshop or indesign style work where the tool is itself a program that you instruct to do things by pointing or scripted actions.
I’m the designer of the Brand Identity for io.js [1] I will design an awesome brand and website package — logo, single-page static website, social media profile pages — for your product/service for 2500 USD in 4 weeks.
Contact me! vijay@dffrnt.com
Other skills: full-stack developer on the React/Node.js stack
Among other things, I’m the designer of the brand identity for io.js [1]
I will design an awesome brand identity for your business, your product or your personal brand for 2500 USD in 4 weeks. Contact me for details: vijay@dffrnt.com
Other skills: full-stack developer on the React/Node.js stack
