Jordan Koschei

it8bit:

Ocarina of Time

Created by Vikki Chu

fancyhands:

something to think about today…

How did we let jeans-and-a-t-shirt usurp this?

mugenstyle:

Roger Sterling!

Process (Rough Draft)

A website doesn’t just happen. It is the result of a deliberate, research-driven process that examines your goals and obstacles and responds with a solution to meet them.

This is an overview of the process used by Impulse, honed by years of experience. We adapt the process to every project, but we do not deviate or remove steps from it. The value we provide to you is derived as much from the journey as from the destination.

Discovery

To make this project a success, we need to understand your organization, its culture, and your brand personality. Moreover, we need to understand the stakeholders involved - the customers, clients, employees, and decision-makers who will be relying on our work.

The Discovery stage enables us to build this knowledge through a tailored combination of:

• Conversations with relevant personnel within your organization
• Analysis of existing brand assets such as logos and advertisements
• Market research, stakeholder interviews, and user persons

At the conclusion of the Discovery stage, we’ll provide you with a document detailing our findings, which will prove useful to you well after this project is finished.

Strategy

Design without strategy is just shooting from the hip. We’ll come up with a plan that turns the data collected through Discovery into something actionable. Your website’s content and structure will take shape as we develop a better picture of how we can best reach your goals.

At the end of the Strategy stage, we’ll have a working model for your website’s content strategy, including breakdowns of how your website should be structured and what sort of information should go on each page.

Implementation

With a cohesive strategy in place, we’ll build the website itself. We design and develop simultaneously, ensuring that your site’s functionality and appearance are seamless and cohesive.

Your website will be mobile-friendly, standards-compliant, and cross-browser compatible. Furthermore, you’ll be able to make changes to the content without touching a drop of code, ensuring the site remains viable well into the future.

Testing & Launch

Prior to releasing your website to the wild, we’ll put it through its paces with different browsers, devices, and use cases. There’s no such thing as a 100% glitch-free website, but we’ll get it as close as possible. Once we’re certain it’s ready to go, we’ll help you launch it into the cloud.

After the launch, we’ll remain available for 30 days to help work through any unexpected problems that might come up. We’ll also walk you through how to edit and maintain your site, so by the time you’re ready to take full ownership of your new digital home, you’ll be completely comfortable with it.

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howtotalktogirlsatparties:

For our latest men’s issue, the Belgian-born designer Olivier Theyskens transformed the city of New York (his current hometown) into our trademark “T.” To do this, the 34-year-old designer and his team spent days piecing together satellite images and obsessing over everything from the placement of bridges and boats to the location of Theyskens’s own West Village apartment building.

mysticplaces:

Plitviche Lakes National Park | Croatia

submission by teal-deer, photos by Jack Brauer, Kate Pedley

I want to make it into that website for excellent beards.

Project Codenames

I like to give my projects code names, not because they need them, but because I like naming things. Unfortunately, I can never decide on a consistent naming schema. So far, various iterations of my personal website have been named:

Characters from the West Wing

• Seaborn
• Bartlet

Seaborn was eventually commandeered for a project I worked on for my college’s SGA, along with “Ziegler.”

Architects

• Renzo
• Piano

Yes, Renzo Piano is one guy. I felt weird naming the project “Piano,” though, since I thought it would be misinterpreted as the instrument instead of the person (by whom? Who else would see my project codename?). So I switched to Renzo instead.

Mythological Figures

• Argo
• Odysseus

This is where I am now.

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