In mid 2016, the council of New Zealand’s largest city partnered with Digital Arts Network (DAN) and Goodfolk (my employer at the time) to completely overhaul their online services. DAN are a UX specialist company, and with Goodfolk’s history primarily in design, I became the bridge between the two as the in-house UX & UI expert at Goodfolk.
My early tasks were to create visual concepts in order to find the overarching look & feel to be used across this massive website, and to support DAN by working alongside their UX designers on-site at Auckland Council. As the project ticked on, I became the designer in charge of all visuals for the project (under my creative director at Goodfolk). I designed an extremely extensive pattern library and many page templates as I interpreted DAN’s UX solutions into the final product, and also ran quality assurance in the front-end build.
This project was long running and extensive, with the work I initially spearheaded for the main Auckland Council website extending into designs for the Auckland Council Libraries website and Dare to Explore website. I was also responsible for designing the illustrative home page icons on the Auckland Council website along with a full spec guide to allow other designers to expand the set.