CollyLogic: Erskine Design v2

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3rd January 2009

Erskine Design v2

Approximately five minutes before we finished for Christmas and ran to the pub, we launched something we’ve been working on for over five months whenever we could - the new Erskine Design website - lets call it version 2.

None of us will be going into any detail yet about the millions of decisions we made, as we’re saving that for an exclusive article elsewhere in the coming weeks or months. Still, read on for a brief explanation…

We urgently needed to represent what Erskine has become after 28 incredibly successful and hectic months, and the old site wasn’t up to it any more. We needed to put potential clients at the heart of our decision making and how we present ourselves, our work, our abilities, our processes, our professionalism.

This was a major collaborative effort, but mainly from myself and especially Greg at the heart of it, with added genius from Phil, Glen, Simon - well, everyone really.

As I said, I can’t say any more yet, so we’ll let the design and varied layouts do the talking. Still, do let me know what you think, if you haven’t already (and huge thanks to those that have). I should stress that its not 100% yet, as we already have numerous changes we’d like to make, and the homepage was somewhat “rushed”.

Simon Collison published this on 03/01/09, at 1:46 AM

Comments

Looks as if all the wireframes, layout comps, design decisions and time were well worth it.

Congrats, Happy New Year and love the new site.

03/01 at 03:16 from Jeremy

I saw this over the Christmas period and felt compelled to email you saying just how much I’m in love with the new site but didn’t in the end as I didn’t want to run the risk of sounding like an excitable dog, thus keeping my cool exterior intact.

Top work, absolutely love the overall feel of the site. Looking at it you would think it would smell of roses. Beautiful.

Cool exterior now in ruins, with a frantic tail going off on one. Officially.

03/01 at 15:50 from Richard Bateman

The new site is fantastic, hearty congratulations on a job very well done!

04/01 at 13:31 from Adam

Ab-so-loot-lee love it! Seriously, fantastic job!

05/01 at 13:10 from JamesM

Love the case studies, beautiful work.

06/01 at 03:55 from Joseph Lee

You said the homepage was “rushed” - I think it looks ace!

I aspire to be able to design and implement my own web designs that are as good as what you guys at erskine do. Constant source of inspiration…

13/01 at 12:45 from Phil A

I particularly like the diversity of layouts throughout the website. The new design doesn’t just look like the standard templated system (e.g. homepage, text page, form page) but rather unique ideas for each type of content being presented. Very nice!

17/01 at 15:25 from Geof Harries

7RaEeC

19/01 at 04:52 from UCPHu

exellent article, ce post est tres bien fait, tres bon tavail horoscope gratuit

19/01 at 16:38 from horoscope

Looks great, guys. I particularly like the in-depth look and feel of the case studies. I’m looking forward to the detailed explanation of what went into this site.

19/01 at 16:51 from Adrian

I like it, the thumbs of previous clients looks hot!

26/01 at 07:46 from Who

Definitely one of my favorites. great design. simple navigation. Validated in Strict XHTML. Even more impressive with more sites trying to take the easier way out with transitional.

29/01 at 05:15 from Jura

The site looks fantastic. The “About” section is my favorite part - full profile pictures add a lot more personalization in my opinion. Well done!

30/01 at 13:05 from Justin

Thank you everyone. You are all truly smashing.

We’re doing a few iterations after rushing a few bits and pieces, so a number of pages are gradually improving to meet our perfectionist obsessionisms.

31/01 at 03:00 from Simon Collison

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