Martin Freer Web and user experience designer

A microsite to accompany a new positioning statement

Curtin University launched their new positioning statement with a series of television adverstisements. We created this microsite to show how Curtin staff, students and graduates are making tomorrow better.

My role in this project consisted of:

• Wireframing and designing page layouts.
• Visual design.
• Creating a custom wordpress theme.
• Developing, designing and testing standards compliant
  HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Improving readability and usability

Improving the typography, visual design, usability and adding blogging functionality.

My role in this project consisted of:

• Gathering requirements from client.
• Wireframing and designing page layouts.
• Visual design.
• Creating a custom wordpress theme.
• Developing, designing and testing standards compliant
  HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Helping a friend promote their
latest solo album.

This web site is a staged release, pages have been created as content arrives. It's also my first attempt at developing in HTML 5 and using Wordpress

My role in this project consisted of:

• Gathering requirements from client.
• Persona creation and development.
• Wireframing and designing page layouts.
• Visual design.
• Creating a custom wordpress theme.
• Developing, designing and testing standards compliant
  HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Designing a system.

The project hasn't been about designing a web site, but rather designing a system which presents various formats of content consistently across the university.

My role in this project consisted of:

• Wireframing and designing page layouts.
• Designing content containers for the CMS.
• Testing prototypes of the designs remotely through chalkmalk.
• Presenting designs and explaining design
  decisions to stakeholders.
• Educating the web community about the presentation of content.
• Visual design.
• Developing and testing standards compliant, accessible HTML and CSS for reuse.

Designed to make choosing a postgraduate course easier.

Our team worked together to experiment, design, prototype and test three separate design solutions.

My role in this project consisted of:

• Facilitating brain storming, persona and needs analysis session.
• Working with multi disciplined team to develop three different prototypes.
• Writing and facilitating usability tests.
• Analysing results and combining the successful parts of each prototype.
• Visual design.
• HTML and CSS development.

Curtin's core product.

After usability testing highlighted issues with the findability of key information on the existing web site, my work on this project focused primarily on the visual redesign.

My role in this project consisted of:

• Facilitated and designed usability tests of existing web site.
• Redesigned page layouts.
• Visual design.
• Developed standards compliant, accessible HTML and CSS.

A convenient online RSVP.

My role in this project consisted of:

• Visual design.
• Configured PHP mailing scripts.
• Developed standards compliant, accessible HTML and CSS.