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lost and worn

robert girvin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:52:16 +0000

overview: site preserves and shares a love of vintage clothing and artifacts

challenge: site must be simple, spare, quick to go live, inspiring for garment designers, and easy to share through social media

solution: used monotype font to emphasize simplicity, focused on ease of use with minimal navigation, populated site with detailed photos, and enriched graphical experience through view-all option

studio: robert girvin

contributions: information architecture, wireframe, prototyping, art direction, graphic design, production, usability testing, seo

marfa cloth

robert girvin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:24:58 +0000

overview: marfa cloth e-commerce site complements consumer’s brand experience

challenge: interface must speak the language of the brand – open, minimal, utilitarian, functional, subtle, and hyper-refined

solution: created a site whose user interface forms a consistent gestalt with the brand and with graphic and product design

studio: marfa cloth

contributions: information architecture, logic map, site map, wireframe, prototyping, art direction, production, usability testing, seo

igigi, inc.

robert girvin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:15:26 +0000

overview: designed a complete fashion e-commerce site from the ground up

challenge: user interface must make plus-size fashions look desirable and competitive with bridge and ready-to-wear brands to attract a new clientele of young, urban, and educated shoppers while offering something new to the existing clientele

solution: designed new user interface based on thorough market analysis of competing fashion sites, developed shapestylist fit guide shopping tool, implemented an easy-to-use and easy-to-maintain shopping cart using an open source content management system

studio: igigi, inc.

contributions: information architecture, logic map, wireframe, prototyping, art direction, ideation, usability testing, production, debugging, troubleshooting, coding, seo, support, magento shopping cart content management system, typo3 content management system

haha! design

robert girvin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:13:07 +0000

overview: design studio’s site is fun, reflects branding, and draws clients in

challenge: site must engage potential clients, have a sense of now with an innovative design strategy that also organizes and presents complex data

solution: bold use of colors, innovative interaction features

studio: haha! design

contributions: information architecture, design prototyping, art direction, usability testing, production, flash build, coding, debugging