Sacha Greif

Site Redesign

Sacha — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:05:21 +0000

I knew when I redesigned my site, it had to be big. It would be linked by all the galleries, it would be tweeted by everybody, and the work offers would start pouring in shortly after. I figured with my new kick-ass portfolio, a high paying job at Apple or Google couldn’t be far away. So I spent hours and hours on the mockup. I did about 15 versions, each slightly better than the last, getting closer and closer to portfolio perfection.

And then I threw all of that away and used a free wordpress theme instead.

Why would I do that? Shouldn’t someone who calls himself a web designer we at least capable of designing his own website? The truth is that all that self-inflicted pressure was getting too paralyzing. How should I style comments? How big do the thumbnails need to be? Where will I put my social network links? All those questions were piling up while I was putting off updating my current site.

But nobody cares if your site is the best designed on the net if it doesn’t actually exist. And I realized if I’m designing sites for a living, my work should be able to speak for itself.

So here you go, a very plain, very boring portfolio. But at least it’s there.

TollFreeConferencing.com

Sacha — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:48:01 +0000

TollFreeConferencing.com is a site that provides great enterprise-level conference calling. When they asked me to redesign their site and back-end, the main goal was to make the site as profesionnal as the service.

TollFreeConferencing.com home page

Call Archives Section

Leapform Kiosk

Sacha — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:21:31 +0000

Clearing up your health care situation is no fun (just ask Barack Obama). But here’s a field where technology can actually make things simpler. Leapform is a social services company who’s developing a touchscreen kiosk that make filling an application much faster.

Touchscreen Kiosk

Their kiosk even include video conferencing, and multiple kiosks can be managed by a single remote operator.

Kiosk Management Interface

Race Director

Sacha — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:12:19 +0000

Bazu Media’s challenge was developing a web application that can manage the thousands of people taking part in marathons, triathlons, and other sports event across the country. Mine was designing a back-end interface that makes it easy to manage all that data, as well as the front-end site where athletes will find their results and photos.

Course Management Interface

This project is still a work in progress, but you can check out some of our early mockups for the course management screen.

Aids Data Hub

Sacha — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:03:55 +0000

AidsDataHub Search Interface

How many times have you been forced to use a badly designed search box or look through hundred of results to find the content you need? This has happened to all of us more than a couple time, yet this kind of usability problem usually falls far behind other tasks on a company’s list of things to fix.

So I was very glad to get the opportunity to work with an organisation that actually cares about making their site more usable and more useful.

Working with SnappLabs, I redesigned AidsDataHub’s internal search form as well as their search result, designing the interface for improvements such as color coded result accuracy and live search.

Aids Data Hub Results

FCC & TFC

Sacha — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:07:31 +0000

Here’s a quick post to point out two new sites I’ve worked on. I’ve done front-end and user interface design on both sites. The first one is FreeConferenceCalling.com and is a great way to hook up with your clients or coworkers for a quick conference call. The second one is TollFreeConferencing.com and gives you even more control over your conference call, with sub-accounts, billing options, and lots of other great features.

FreeConferenceCalling.com

Sacha — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:23:30 +0000

FreeConferenceCalling needed a new front-end and user interface. Their only requirement was that the design needed to match their logo. The redesign gave this great service the site and user interface it deserved.

The home page's main goal is getting new users to sign up

Since the redesign, conversions have gone up and many users have commented on the ease of use of the new administration interface.

Conference Management UI

launch site

GrapplingFrance

Sacha — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:04:38 +0000

The website for the National Grappling Commitee (the french submission wrestling federation) uses Expression Engine. An interesting feature of GrapplingFrance.com which would be almost impossible to do with any other CMS is that events are linked to photo and video galleries as well as news article. This way every info can be centralized in one place, and most people visiting the site have told me that it’s very easy to find what they were looking for.

GrapplingFrance.fr home page

launch site

Irem Paris 7

Sacha — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:58:00 +0000

The Institute for Researching the Teaching of Mathematics (Institue de Recherche sur l’Enseignement des Mathématiques) of the Paris 7 university needed a new website, and Expression Engine was the perfect tool for the job.

Thanks to EE’s advanced relations management, I was able to implement separate user groups within the site, each with its own homepage, events, articles, and member profiles. This lets the members of IREM update and manage their own content without putting a heavy workload on the webmaster.

launch site

IREM home page

Platinum

Sacha — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:40:02 +0000

Another month, another template. But this one is a little special, since it was specially made for application websites.
It’s got everything you’d want: a big download link, tabs on the front page, icons, a slideshow for your product’s services… And it comes with 6 different page templates, including log in and sign up form. Go check it out at ThemeForest !