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Website Skin Design
posted on 30/6/2008PROJECT: Website Skin Design
OVERVIEW:
We are building a complex website, with an RIA tool built in Adobe Flex and a supporting website built in Microsoft .NET 3.5. We require a graphic designer to provide skins for both the tool and the website. We may award this as a single project or as two separate ones, at our discretion. Please note that a strong preference will be given to candidates who can attend meetings in the UK.
PART ONE: Adobe Flex RIA
The requirement for this part of the project will be to provide both static skin elements and some dynamic elements for an Adobe Flex RIA. Static elements may include tool icons and minor branding elements. Dynamic elements may include button rollover states, component open/close animations and the reskinning of existing Flex/Flash components.
You will be provided with access to a working model of the application, along with several reference sites and a detailed list of requirements. The application will be functionally complete when presented to you and you will be tasked to take it to the next level in terms of its appearance and finish. Branding will be minimal on the RIA and the main focus of the work will be creating the most elegant and attractive user experience.
REQUIRED SKILLS FOR PART ONE.:
In addition to a flair for design, an eye for detail and all the other usual good stuff, you will need to be able to provide assets in a format and structure suitable for incorporation into a Flex RIA built using 100% Actionscript 3.0. No gotoAndPlay(), please! Our developer is very used to working with interactive designers and will structure program elements in a manner which makes them possible to skin. Some familiarity with skinning AS3 components, or the willingness to learn this skill, is also required.
Static elements can be previewed as bitmaps and then provided as sliced Photoshop or Fireworks files.
Dynamic elements can be previewed in whatever version of Flash you are most comfortable working with, but then need to be provided in a form suitable for import into a Flex application – either a properly structured MovieClip that can publish for fp9 or a precompiled .swf or a static file with all the relevant states, depending on the precise element.
Some understanding of interface design and usability issues would be a major plus.
PROPOSED START DATE FOR PART ONE: July 21st, 2008
PART TWO: Microsoft .NET Website
The requirement for this part of the project will be to apply a skin to a Microsoft .NET 3.5 website.
You will be provided with access to the complete site, which will have very little design work implemented – just enough CSS to set up the page structure. You will be tasked with adding the graphic trim to the site in terms of colours, fonts, images and detailed layout. There will be more branding in this part than for the RIA. Our preference is for designs which are clean and modern.
REQUIRED SKILLS FOR PART TWO.:
In addition to all the good stuff listed above you will need to be able to apply your design using valid CSS. The .NET website will be built to output strict XHTML and where required control adapters will be used to make the generated control output more CSS friendly. Nonetheless, some awareness of the quirks of .NET control output and the issues involved in skinning Asp.Net components would be very useful.
Page layouts can be previewed as HTML or in Photoshop or Fireworks, you will then be tasked with implementing the design in CSS.
PROPOSED START DATE FOR PART TWO: 17h August, 2008
We are no longer accepting applications for this project.