Interview with Code Blacks Matt and Mike
19 June 2010 | admin | 0 Comments
I’m Mike and I’m from the CodeBlacks doing html and css.
I’m Matt, I’m doing visual design and I’ve been doing a little bit of IA this morning as well.
- So thanks for talking to us today. So firstly, what are the main objectives for the design crew at the moment?
Matt: Our client is a trust that works with kids in low socio-economic areas. And so we have come up with a plan to be quite a social site. So Mike and I have.. Well I have been doing a little work on the IA – the Information Architecture to make sure that the structure of the clients business is reasonably complex so we’ve mapped that out, probably spent more time than we thought we should on that part but that’s important and so now we’re starting to get to the design side, work out how it’s going to look.
- So with your specific audience, what do you have to keep in mind when you’re doing the design for this site?
Matt: Well it’s interesting because the design has to appeal to parents of these kids that they want to attract into their program but it also has to be kind of a little bit cool for the kids, a lot of these kids are on Facebook so they are sort of familiar with these sort of social networking sites so we have to hit that point where we can appeal to that wide audience.
- So I think it was on Mike’s computer I saw some icons being drawn up, where are you up to with visuals?
Matt: It’s pretty early, we’ve identified three areas which are health and well-being, cultural, and education which are three areas that the trust covers so Mike has been working up some icons…Mike will tell you about that!
Mike: Oh well it’s pretty much just been explained. I mean the exciting part about the site though is that they don’t currently have a site at all so it will be really nice for them to have a way of communicating to the audience and also people have a place to register for the programs that they’re running.
- What is the biggest challenge you’ve had so far?
Matt: I guess in terms of the brand of the trust, it’s quite stayed, the colors are black, grey and white with maroon as an accent so we are sort of working out how we are going to get those colours to appeal to the kids. And the logo of the trust itself is interesting shape so that will make post problems.
- How do you think your team is progressing, do you think you are on track?
Mike: Yeah, it’s good
Matt: Yeah we are killing it. We’ve already got Facebook Connect hooking up to our website backend, so we can let these kids log in to the website through Facebook. I mean, you can’t do that with WordPress can you?
- Hopefully when we come back there will be some pictures for us to see! Thank you for talking to us.
Matt: No problem.
Mike: Thank you.
Tags: clients, Code Blacks, fcp10
