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Fashion Design Tool

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A decline in sales lead to a discovery project in which I reviewed the CX route to a specific product alongside direct comparisons – the results headed towards the creation of a dedicated landing page.

A simple, but incredibly competitive product aimed at assisting the design process within the fashion industry – specifically in crafting bespoke garments. A generic PDP, ‘standard’ photography and a complicated route to item lead to a flat line in sales.

I took on the project and strived towards designing a unique customer experience which not only delivered key points visually, an informative video, direct comparison table and a unique promotion. I liaised with a industrial product photographer to capture 4 powerful images to highlight key points; shape, material, functions and durability. Utilising these images I created a bold landing page, precisely structured to encourage the customer to scroll and reach the comparison table.

Mannequin Landing Page

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With an ever increasing range of mannequins a dramatic change in design was implemented, creating an atmosphere that prevailed quality.

To achieve this I designed a simple grid layout, to account for multiple devices & responsive design, and a restricted colour palette – all of which would help in make the quality of products and photography stand out.

These goals set the tone and allowed me to edit and compose a dramatic layout within photoshop. I used a selection of paths & masked to layer several products, adjustment layers and overlays creating a realistic composition. The restricted colour palette also allowed any highlight & colour to ‘pop’ with vibrancy.

Responsive design and development was at the heart of this project, ensuring that simple tasks like image optimisation and structure schema were on point so that the standard of the page was high both interns of SEO and graphics.

Custom Printing

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As a company, morplan offer a unique ‘vistaprint-like‘ service providing its customers to overprint many of their products within their vast product range. With all artwork created in-house and a fully fledged print shop at their head quarters the final piece to the puzzle was to create a desirable landing page which helped to relay the USP’s for this process.

Designed to be inspirational and informative this page showcases a variety of products, print finishes and pricing – with a mobile first design approach and the use of modern photography all of the key USP’s for this service.

Panache Website

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Morplan Ltd rescued the Panache brand in 2017 in order to bolster its product range but also gain access to a ‘higher-end’ clientele.

One of the goals was to ensure a consist look and feel across all mediums but to not develop or change it too drastically so as not to scare of their current customers.

A few years past and the brand, website and printed materials have become tired – left a few years behind the trend and by their competitors. A quick fix was suggested to revitalise the website – its fastest growing asset.
The goal here was to maintain the general look and feel of the site but to bring it inline with modern design styles.

To do this I applied a simple structure to the design using a column based layout. This would ensure that the positioning of the content throughout the website was consistent and professional.

I suggested a responsive monotone approach to their logo, a restricted colour scheme and a minimal design-theme for their adverts – aimed at allowing the hand crafted models to prevail.

SKNREHAB

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As a freelance website designer I was approached by my client to design and build a website for their company, SKN Rehab.

Recently formed, the company pursued a responsible approach of investing in the quality of their core products and brand. The next step was to create a web presence – conveying brand identity, range of services, products and an online shop.

I was approached as a consultant to make recommendations on; website approach (html vs php) platform, feasibility, design and development.

My recommendation was to adopt WordPress as a robust and scalable platform. The next option was to bolt on WooCommerce, allowing the renowned blogging platform to become as e-commerce engine. Then on to suggesting a fairly bullet proof starter theme which could be readily customised – Bootstrap for WordPress.

My suggestions were taken onboard and the process was agreed – I created an initial concept to help gather interest & buy-in from the business owners. Once this was accepted I proceeded to customise and built their mobile first e-commerce site.

Take a look at the sample images below:

Display Sense

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Display sense are a company with 30+ years of retail heritage, supplying shop fittings and fixtures to small to medium business across the United Kingdom, Ireland and USA.

Originally, they were a catalogue first company which led towards a very small and basic website site to showcase their product range – I was tasked with transforming the look and feel of the company.

My initial goal was to ensure the their entire image database was complete with consistency in terms of: quality, style and variation.
Once this was complete I progressed to ensuring that the branding was consistently represented across a variety of mediums – print and digital.

With these solid foundations set in place I was then able to generate a ‘new’ look and feel to the companies website with four main goals to achieve: create an encapsulating visual experience, ensure the unique selling points were accessible, make an efficient user journey and enhance the websites SEO capabilities.

Alongside the inspiring imagery, I decided to propose a drastically reduce navigation menu. The concept here was to place less emphasis on the menu, which was previously a pure SEO driven beast, and centre the users focus on key ranges – getting the customer to larger product ranges quicker.

I have then suggested advertising key ranges within the menu using images again – this breaks the visual flow on the menu creating interest and intrigue.

Photograph Restoration

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I truly enjoy utilising photoshop to completely transform an ordinary photo, revitalising or transforming it into a work of art. Over the years I have invested copious amounts of time working through all the features and functions of photoshop, alongside many other Adobe (I am not an affiliate…just a fan-boy), consider how they can be used to enhance and repair images.

To highlight my extensive knowledge within photoshop I have selected a few samples to showcase three main areas of focus – image restoration, image manipulation and image creation. Here you’ll see a multitude of techniques, from; filters, adjustments, masks and paths.

Take a look at the images below:

By now we’ve all seen that meme which iterates how we* all became designers…well let me tell you that is definitely the case here.

A few inspiring memes
ooh the truth…when you see a few memes that you relate too!