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Tathata Golf Website 2.0

January 11, 2018 By Mooney Leave a Comment

Goal:

Redesigning ain’t easy, but it sure is fun

Process:

I started creating compositions and wireframes around May. We started to hit on the look and feel of the site closer to August. It was clear at that time that some assistance was going to be needed. We contracted out to have someone begin the process of taking the 14 compositions I had and building the pages roughly. We were told it would be done in 4 weeks, including responsive, videos, and animations. 12 weeks later we still did not have responsive, the videos working 100% or all the videos. I stepped in right as the new site was coming online and 4-5 very long… long days we were able to meet the deadline and pull it off. Below are samples of the pages that were created.

Tathata Golf – Emails

January 10, 2018 By Mooney Leave a Comment

Goal:

Update Email look and function

Process:

I started to work immediately on social content. Emails early on I pushed to make each one better than before. Ultimately with the new site launch, I created ones to use through Intercom instead of going through SharpSpring and or MailGun or Mail Chimp. I also used Balsamiq to create some early ideas for various email types.

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Vision Tech Team

October 12, 2016 By Mooney Leave a Comment

Goal:

If you build it, they will want a glass of milk

Process:

Vision Tech Team was amazing. A young upstart company with some big clients. It was a very quick paced environment and I got to work on some incredible projects with some top talent in the industry, with two very exceptional Entrepreneurs at the helm.

Mainly I was a creative manager helping both the Developers and Designers build out pages, giving them guidance on the look, quality and suggestions of Style Guides, hitting deadlines and such. I was not as good a Project Manager as I think I was but I think I did ok. I worked mainly with wireframes or compositions first, from there it was instructions with the amazing designers and developers of Vision Tech Team. Samples below of the teams and my collaboration.

Freelance

September 16, 2016 By Mooney Leave a Comment

Goal:

Just because its Freelance, Doesn’t mean it’s free

Process:

I started doing additional freelance in between jobs or on the side. Here is a small collection of some of the work I completed during those brief reprieves from steady income. For those starving for experience, or for a sandwhich I utilized localsolo.com and 99Designs as well to increase my opportunities and choose what I wanted to work on.

Designing a site when…

April 22, 2016 By Mooney Leave a Comment

Designing a portfolio when you have little time

The before

Just like that. Before I realized it I was out of a job. I realized right then the weight of what that means. How do I pay my mortgage? How do I tell my wife? The zinger came when I finally realized, oh crap! I don’t even have a site up!

I had relied on the fact that I was happy. I was content at my job and was damn good at it. Never did I think I would need to update my portfolio and or build a site let alone so quickly. Being me I had to remember some big key steps…

1) The biggest key is to stay flexible and positive.

This was all I could muster between the job applying, interviewing and doing tests for various companies.

OOOOH AHHHH …. pretty lame right? The problem I ran into was … what do I show?

Animation? Bootstrap? Parallax? straight HTML? Pictures of my dogs? What I knew was that I am a good coder/designer. That I needed to keep that in mind. Don’t lose sight of who you are and what you can do. I decided on things I was good at. One was designing. The other was chicken enchiladas.

2) Design it on paper first!

I did about 1 – 2 hours of rough layouts and designs, really trying to plan out the look and feel of my website. What I wanted to show, how I wanted it to work, where it needed to be to compete for jobs out there.

I even went so far to create wireframes and a quick pdf guide to keep me on point

I knew I wanted to show responsiveness, every job I was applying for was really asking for and wondering how to showcase mobile-friendly websites to reach more customers.

3) The end or is it?

So where did I end up? I did find some freelance, and some contract work, keeping positive and letting people experience your energy was a big reason for these experiences. Also being grateful and humble helps appreciate what you have and whom you have.

But now I am back, back out in the world looking.At least this time I have a prettier page to assist in my search. Still not 100% complete but neither was the death star. #hanshotfirst.

and since I mentioned it before, pics of my dogs.

Thanks for reading!

– Kyle

Insight Resource App

April 5, 2016 By Mooney Leave a Comment

Goal:

Creating presentation platform via website

Process:

I started with quick sketches to layout the concept, sharing my sketches with the senior designer. The concept was then presented to the project managers.

Wireframes:

Once the sketches were approved, I constructed the wireframes and built them in InDesign. This showcased the overall look and feel of the template.

Composition:

After the wireframes were approved, the senior designer and I each created our own versions to present. My version was chosen for the final design.

Automatix

March 10, 2016 By Mooney Leave a Comment

Goal:

Create a website/app based presentation

Process:

I always like to start with sketches, wireframes, final composition and production, but I had to move quickly.

Due to the time constraints (5 days), I skipped wireframing and went straight to the composition. I made sure I was on brand with Jaguar and Land Rovers content, fonts, logos, colors, and photos.

Completed Site Designs:

Once my compositions were approved, I built them in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Lightbox.

Insight Event Emails

January 27, 2016 By Mooney Leave a Comment

Goal:

Create emails for large scale events

Process:

We had a whole department of talented people who would coordinate, plan and run full events all over the world. They usually needed stuff from me. Like emails, landing pages, posters, fliers, sometimes business cards, or print materials. Even the occasional powerpoint. Mainly emails.

Insight Landing Pages

March 27, 2015 By Mooney Leave a Comment

Goal:

Landing Pages for Insight Enterprises

Process:

A lot of the landing pages started using Adobe Experience Manager. They start also with a client asking for a campaign to lead to a landing page, a whitepaper, an infographic is offered in exchange for contact information. That information eventually leads to a sales call.

I made sure to adhere to not only Insights brand guidelines but also the partners who were paying for the pages construction and advertising.

Insight PPC Ads

March 22, 2015 By Mooney Leave a Comment

Goal:

Pay Per Clicks, billboards & Props

Process:

Billboards take a while just for the large file size. Luckily a trick is create a smaller file at the same ratio, like 3:1 and save at a higher resolution, when you blow it up it will keep the clarity. Not much to the PPCs. You find out what the promotion is and create several artboards in Adobe. The great thing about that is you can add resize and make multiples than export them all at once. Streamlines the process and keeps the work flowing out instead of back in with additional ad requests.

Props

After the rebrand there were several events, sometimes they required printing and cutting out props on foam core to be used by staff and partners. Below a set of some I printed, made, and mounted.

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Designing a portfolio when you have little time

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