New Website Design

I’ve just relaunched my new personal site. You can check it out here.

The idea was to create a central place for people to find out about me without taking the whole “personal branding” thing too seriously.

Building the site was a truly collaborative effort. The site wouldn’t have come together nearly as well as it did if it weren’t for everyones effort.

I came up with the original idea and wireframes for the site which I’d been thinking about for a while. Ben Patterson from Native suggested the lasers and then worked out a way to build them in CSS + Javascript with a fallback for Firefox.

After a quick chat with Daniel Wearne and Christian Varga we all decided we needed to add explosions to the lasers to push the tongue-in-cheek nature of the site to the next level.

Within a few hours Dan had made the design that you see now and Christian had chopped the design in Compass. Ben Patterson then nailed the most important parts of the site – the lasers which follow your cursor, the sprites and hover state on the photo of me and the explosions.

I’m really happy with how it all turned out and the response online.

What do you think?

Ned

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