Portfolio interaction

Here are three levels of interaction with my new portfolio site. Firstly here is what you'll see when you arrive at the site:

Next is a hover over one of the hanging projects:

If you click read more, you'll get the full project page:

And if you click out of that and want to view my resume, here's what it'll look like:

Site Proposal

The new portfolio site will house a body of my work stretching over 12 years. The navigation will be a timeline on which will hang the individual projects at the point at which they were made.

Each project in the timeline will have a particular emphasis on collaboration. This is an area I want to develop more both now and after I graduate. I have worked with illustrators, programmers, videographers and other designers in many of the projects I’ve completed.

The site will also serve as a way to see a progression in ability and range of projects over time.

Each year will show an image in the background, a key event that happened that I want to remember, something that connects to my journey as a designer.

The site will be built in flash or HTML and incorporate a resume, contact details and designed identity.


Site Map

Here's an idea of how the site will navigate:

Thrive

This video shows the culmination of two and half months work alongside Mo Morris. It's great to see it all come together in such a compelling narrative.

 

Thrive from Tom Morse-Brown on Vimeo.

Pro Practice - website roughs

For Pro-Practice next year I'll be developing a new web based portfolio. I'll be keeping the domain name tommorsebrown.com but marketing myself as a collaborator. Each project on the timeline will be hung where it was created and the timeline will be as long as my career in design has been, scrolling to the left and right. The image in the background will be a significant event in that year, for example, these three photographs you see below are taken at Offf Design Festival in Lisbon, Portugal. This was a significant event in my life as a designer, it opened my eyes to new possibilities and to current thinking and technologies in the design world.

Personal portfolio revamp

Next semester I'm going to be building this out, taking what I already have on tommorsebrown.com and making it sing! (well, not literally).

Here's revamp idea # one.
Categorization of work will happen across the top on the left, contact and logo on the right and resume bottom right. These will act as a window for the work in the middle. I want updating the work to be simple when I have new stuff so a simple design like this would be nice.

Here's revamp idea # two.

This is like idea two but the work links will be stacked one on top of the other in a sort of hanging column in date order, the strips will be colored according to work type. Initial home page will see the stack plus the logo in the background.

Here's revamp idea # three.

This is taking the chronological idea a step further and creating a timeline or washing line with work hanging from it. This might need to be flash based so will be harder to update. Could be nice though.

I'm also going to update the fonts, make the site much more contemporary. 

This is Adelle. Isn't she beautiful?

Here's Ronnia, also from Type Together:

Design Ignites Change Proposal

The result of teaming up with Tammy and Amanda was a complete campaign that would moved along by audience participation, meaning, once all the parts were made, the public could take it and run with it with very little involvement on our part. It would essentially be theirs. It obviously would need to be funded from somewhere, hopefully using grant money won from Design Ignites Change. If we don't win, maybe we should jump on kickstarter.com

Here's the final proposal to Design Ignites Change.

Mine Touch points

Mine Touch Point development

Mine Touch Points

Rosedale Advocacy project update

Final screen shots

The Garden...

And the tool shed...

Thrive video script

What is the community? how this is a movement now

Welcome to Thrive, a online urban garden. This community project facilitates a 2 acre plot for some 40 members. There are many different points of entry and levels of participation. All can learn to grow in Thrive no matter age, experience or knowledge.

Who are the individuals?

There are professionals, novices, single gardeners, groups and families. The online community facilitates group interaction, physical help and education and shared knowledge on mobile devices, like the iPhone and iPad. These digital solutions serve individual needs helping to build a greater sense of community.

Lauren

Lauren is married with two children. She has gardened for 12 years in her own back yard and now is a part of the Thrive community. Lauren prefers to garden a small plot on her own but enjoys being part of a larger community of people who care for the earth. She keeps all her tools in the community shed where people can borrow them by logging in to the hub or by communicating via a mobile device.

When Lauren is out in the garden she is able to see all her tools at a glance on her phone. If she takes something new to the garden she can also photograph it and upload it before placing it in the community tool shed. If she needs an item she doesn’t have while out in the garden, like gloves for her kiddies, she can do a search and find exactly what she needs without walking to the shed. If she finds what she’s looking for she can borrow them without even calling the owner.

Now let’s say Lauren is at home and she’s planning to go to the garden the next day. Maybe he wants to borrow a spade. She can use the website to search, find the tool she likes by reading user comments and borrow, this time from Sandy. If she needs other tools she doesn’t have she can see who owns what and search for something else, like a watering can. The website will even tell her specifications of each tool before she borrows it.

Dave

Meanwhile, in another part of the city, Dave and his friends are wanting to start a garden plot. They are fed up with eating fast food and want to share a garden space to grow their own food. Using the hub they can find out who gardens where according to knowledge level. Being a novice Dave would like to set up near some pros. He can claim their plot by naming it right from his own front room.

Dave and his group can even log in to their plot when they’re out and about using an iPad. They can claim other plots if they need them plus, they can put vegetables in place where they planted by dragging and dropping them. This will then give you alerts on when to water or what might be eating your plants. Wether they’re at home or mobile, the hub and the iPad offer Dave and his team a great resource to see what’s happening with their new garden. 

Conclusion

The Thrive community benefits all its members in many different ways; the hub allows users to see what’s going on in the garden when the weather is bad; you definitely don’t need to own all the tools with a shared community like this and knowledge and even if your knowledge is minimal, you can shack up near someone who knows everything. The online solutions definitely facilitate a greater sense of togetherness in the gardening world.

By joining Thrive you will not only be exposed to a new world of eating healthy food because you’re growing it, you will meet other like minded people and your work load will be halved!


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