Think By Design Portfolio
Domestic Abuse Survival
Domestic Abuse Survival
A WordPress installation with a custom theme and functionality to provide a base for the author of One in Four Women to share blog posts, vlogs, and promote the book. The site and branding was designed from scratch, iterated until a desired result was agreed upon, and then created, installed, and hooked up to third-party services for analytics and SEO management.
The site was designed to be non-offensive, friendly, and comforting. The meant somewhat muted colours, a neutral and consisten theme, and good UX.
A custom vlog post type allows users to create post thumbnails, video links and embeds automatically.
One requirement was to provide a way for users (particularly current abuse victims) to quickly exit the site and remove the browser history as much as possible.Games Playbook
Games Playbook
An Angular web app that consumes WordPress REST API data to display strategy guides, reviews, and news for various board games. Bespoke and pared-down WordPress installation with customised REST endpoints and API response caching, custom taxonomies, and other custom backend features. The app includes Angular Universal, but due to client hosting issues, currently is client-side rendered.
The posts component pulls in posts from the provided category, which can be filtered by name using an auto-suggest input.
Fairly interesting use of CSS grid on the home page, which uses Angular Animations to animate.Planetversaries - iOS app
Planetversaries - iOS app
An iOS app written in Swift to find out when your birthday will be on other planets, if you had been born on that planet instead of Earth. It works by calculating how many times around the sun each planet will have moved since you were born, and finding out the next time it will complete a full revolution. This means that for planets further from the Sun, such as Neptune, your next birthday will likely be many years away, and you won't be nearly as old.
Browse through planets to se your different birthdays.
You can save it to your calendar to remind you to set up the party.
It even includes the less popular but incredibly interesting body Eris.
You can also read more about each planet.Events as Products
Events as Products
Our client wanted a way to sell events and training sessions in WordPress/WooCommerce without a plugin, and that integrates with a calendar. We have made a blog post about it, which you can view here: Selling Events in WordPress Without a Plugin
The calendar view with conditional listed events.This Website
This Website
As Core Web Vitals become more and more important - especially on mobile - we wanted to create a speedier, more direct website. We did a complete redesign and went for a much bolder, less cluttered design. We ditched WordPress as it was very much overkill for our application and went back to basics. The site is mostly just PHP/HTML and CSS, with some minimal JS/jQuery on the Portfolio and Contact pages for the AJAX requests.
The logo design relies less on the “thought” aspect of the company name, and more on the “design” side, but we should affirm that both are critical in our daily work.
The duotone can make it a challenge to draw attention, but there are many tools in our design toolbox to help bring focus to the right areas.
Perfect mobile and desktop scores on Pagespeed Insights.
...and on GTMetrix, too.
Of course, the 404 page gets slightly more love than the rest.Romance Online
Romance Online
This website required some custom tools to integrate with their Elementor installation, as well as some speed enhancements. These included a custom filterable Recipe widget, and a few “love calculators”.
The FLAMES calculator in action.
A sample usage of the Recipe widget.