Web Design
NYFIX ioinet
Website Design
NYFIX ioitnet was the second landing page I designed for the people at NYFIX. I see this as an evolution of the previous design I created for them (see below), with a more realistic spotlight effect, and just the slightest hint of grunge design in the background.
Website by Boston Interactive.
Save the Harbor/Save the Bay
Website Design
Save the Harbor was an interesting design opportunity for the team at Boston Interactive. With the company approaching its ten year anniversary, it was decided that one feature of the celebration would be a public contest between three different design compositions. As such, three designers, myself included, created unique designs for a non-profit organization known as Save the Harbor/Save the Bay. What you see to the left is my contribution to the contest.
On the night of Boston Interactive’s tenth anniversary party, this design was announced as the contest winner.
Website by Boston Interactive.
Destructive Fiction
Website Design & Development
Destructive Fiction is a site that features four different webserials I’ve written over the years. Two years after its debut, I gave the site a whole new look, and a much more interesting homepage that features the main characters from each storyline. I made use of a very nice CSS trick to make three of the main images blur when you hover over any one of them. Try it out.
Franklin Electronic Publishers
Website Conceptual Design
Franklin is a company that manufactures portable electronic reference devices, like pocket translators. In order to update their image, I created a sleek design that focused on their products. I also gave their homepage more air, making it far less cluttered than it had been in the past.
The Boston Consortium
Website Design
The Boston Consortium is a resource for college administrators for 13 schools in the Boston area. The challenge here was that the client didn’t want any photos that would pigeonhole their organization, so I had to go abstract. Notice that I transformed the logo into a symbolic network. How slick is that?
Website by Boston Interactive.
Massachusetts Hospital Association
Website Conceptual Design
MHA, like the Boston Consortium, is a collaborative organization that pools the resources of several groups. Instead of schools, MHA deals with hospitals. Likewise, they wanted a more symbolic homepage, so I created a design that presented MHA as a leading voice in their field. This is a very clean design, and I really liked how the lighting effects came together in the header.
Northeast Public Relations, Inc.
Project Management & Website Design
NEPR is a one-man PR firm in Providence (see if you recognize the guy’s name). He didn’t have any photos to go on, so I spun the tagline into a grandiose image. To play off the logo, the pages have a very nautical feel to them. This design really panned out nicely, and should serve NEPR for years to come.
Lean Enterprise Institute
Website Design
LEI is all about simplicity. So why clutter up the homepage? When I got the wireframes for this project, I had to laugh at how much they wanted to say right up front. My solution? Push it all below the fold, and focus on what “lean” thinking is all about. Luckily, they went with it.
Website by Boston Interactive.
Maine Cabin Rentals
Website Design
This one is probably the only site I’ve ever had to design for an old-school 800 x 600 resolution. I tried to talk them out of it, but it was no good. Despite that, the design came together effortlessly.
Website by Boston Interactive.
PathView by Apparent Networks
Website Conceptual Design
Now this was a great-looking design. For once, I landed a client looking for something dark and sleek. To achieve a modern, deeply technological design, I created a virtual room with a wrap-around viewing screen for the main messaging. The information buckets rise up in the foreground like flat-panel displays. Overall, a very dynamic look.
Aberdeen Group
Website Conceptual Design
For with a global scope like Aberdeen Group, I devised a homepage that created a window on the world. The use of stock photo business people is something I try to avoid, so this is a nice example of me going outside of my comfort zone.
Sailors for the Sea
Website Conceptual Design
Sailors for the Sea is an organization for environmentally conscious sailors. Even though the design you see here was not picked as the final design, many of the styles on this composition were incorporated in the design that was chosen. I’ll count that as a partial win.
Biscotti Mobile Analytics
Website Conceptual Design
Biscotti was a client with a very complicated business model that had to be summed up very simply on the homepage. Basically, they manage ad space and related analytics for mobile websites. I’m not a big fan of clutter, so I streamlined their process and this was the result. Any good?
South Shore Vocational Tech
Information Architecture & Website Design
South Shore was an interesting project that seemed simple at the outset, and got progressively more involved. Why? Well, it became clear that I needed to dramatically reorganize the site’s content when I saw that their main navigation consisted of 26 items. As a result, I created a whole new site map, then wireframed the homepage and went to work on a design. Not bad for a pro bono project.
Website by Boston Interactive.
Two Ten Careers Portal
Information Architecture & Website Design
Two Ten Footwear Foundation was a non-profit organization that my company created a site for. As their job board filled up, they decided to create an entire careers portal that merged elements of social networking with a job search functionality. This is was pretty intense, as I was tasked with creating wireframes for the site, predicting and anticipating every possible scenario that a job seeker and an employer would face when using the site. Thankfully, I had a great project manager, and things came together nicely. Although my design was chosen for the final site, what you see to your left is my favorite design.
Website by Boston Interactive.
Fitzgerald Industries
Website Design
Fitzgerald Industries is a distributor of antibodies, antigens, etc. that wanted an e-commerce site. Now this is a real underdog story right here: A senior designer at my company tapped me to create a quick composition with almost no prior knowledge of the company or what they were looking to see. The other designer had his two comps go up against mine, and Fitzgerald opted for mine. Not bad.
Website by Boston Interactive.
Running on Empty
Website Design & Development
Running on Empty is a comic strip I’ve been writing and illustrating since college. After publishing an online version of it on my own site, I decided to move the strip to a separate URL in 2007. The layout has remained relatively unchanged since then, but the design elements change with the seasons. Very dynamic, very dark, very me.
Just to warn you: This isn’t your daddy’s comic strip. You can check out the artwork that appears in the comic here.
Swerling Milton Winnick
Website Conceptual Design
SMW is a group of insurance adjusters that fight for the common man rather than businesses. They wanted a site that emphasized their professionalism, but also conveyed their mission. Here, I created a visual timeline of a disaster that invariably leads to the helping hand of SMW. The swirls of smoke lead the eye down the page, right into the key information below the main messaging.
Craigville Beach Association
Website Design
With CBA, I was given the opportunity to incorporate a few choice grunge effects into the design. This is most obvious in what I did to their logo, and in the title design I created. I also Photoshopped the hell out of the main image, turning a beautiful tropical beach into a crappy New England beach. Not bad, right?
Website by Boston Interactive.
Appia V5 by NYFIX
Website Design
Appia was one of my first projects with Boston Interactive, where I created a sleek landing page for a NYFIX software application. Nothing too involved, but definitely a nice piece.
Website by Boston Interactive.
Daniel Beadle.com V2
Website Design & Development
Right after I learned HTML and CSS, I couldn’t wait to build my own website. In all my enthusiasm, I wound up creating a site that was packed with portfolio pieces, comics, and characters. But like a college freshman, I soon realized that I had packed way too much. With more experience in the industry, I recognized my mistake, and created a decidedly more targeted website, which you’re looking at right now. Even so, it wasn’t a bad looking site, right?
(In case you’re wondering, version one was created before I knew anything about web design, so it’s not worth showing.)
