Schedlr
Schedlr is an iOS app that displays information about Ars Electronica events and allows you to optimise your time there by building a customised itinerary. It was built over 4 weeks from conception to realisation and introduced me to coding in Xcode and mobile application development.Details:
- Built with Sencha Touch
- Followed JavaScript best practices and the MVC pattern
- HTML5 & Sass, JavaScript & JSON
- Web Storage API for saving events
- First proper open-source project
- Received a 2:1
View-Master
We were asked to rebrand an 80s product for the present and create a viral game alongside a website to promote that product. In a team of 4 we built an immersive 2.5D space adventure showcasing our re-designed View-Master. I also blogged about the experience.Details:
- Built with Unity, Cinema 4D and Maya
- HTML5 & CSS3, JavaScript & jQuery for site
- Facebook integration
- Seeded through Facebook, Twitter and Kongregate
- Received a First
Mini-Portfolio
This site housed my projects from the last term. The brief was that it should be 'HTML5'; as I've been doing this for the last year I thought I'd also introduce object-oriented CSS3 and a sprinkling of jQuery.Details:
- Front-end design
- Object-oriented CSS3
- JavaScript & jQuery
- Valid, semantic HTML5
- Web fonts
- Received a First
mixcd
mixcd is a community of people that swap mix cds on reddit. I redesigned the site that they use to share and obtain information from their users; it is used by over 2,000 people.Details:
- Front-end design
- Responsive CSS
- Integrating design into existing site
- Standardising markup
- UX/UI
- Usability
Lyrix
Lyrix was borne from our PHP brief, simply to design a site that uses PHP in some way. You type in a lyric and get to see others. It also generates lyrics from the submitted tags.Details:
- PHP
- AJAX using jQuery
- HTML5 & CSS3
- PHP Form validation
- Last.fm API for autosuggesting
- XML parsing
- REST principles
- Received a First
Breeze
A week to build a simple video game. This was the brief that resulted in Breeze. It's built in Unity and the coding side is mostly JavaScript. It was a very steep learning curve but I love the result and it is one of the projects I'm most proud of.Details:
- Learnt Unity within 2 weeks
- JavaScript
- 3D game
- Working with animations
- Open-sourced
- Received a First
Puppet Love
This was a university project. I teamed up with 3 TV students, 3 Scriptwriters and 3 Interactive Media Producers to create this contemporary, cross-platform drama. It was presented in front of 2 BBC representatives.Details:
- Login system
- RSS feed
- Contact form
- Drag-and-Drop game
- Commenting
- iPhone layout and functionality
- Video encoding
- Received a First
Becoming
This Flash animation was a solo university project. It had to be under 2 minutes long, be interactive and aimed at a specific audience.Details:
- Flash animation
- Original music
- Website designed in Flash
- Actionscript 3.0
- Image and audio editing
- Received a First