I worked with the Calendar team to create a design that hinted heavily in Gmail‘s direction (so that Google Calendar would feel like a brand extension of Gmail). But it also consisted of design components and features that Google had never offered before. Consistent with Google’s product philosophy, Google Calendar sought to be a game-changing web app that made online calendar creation, sharing, and publishing super simple.

My participation in the project consisted of numerous design and review phases, from early concepts through final design. I also produced the HTML & CSS for many of Calendar’s key UI components, much of which ultimately got compiled into the final code for the product launch.

The final design direction makes abundant use of Cathay Pacific’s primary brand colors. The header provides a flexible framework to use different imagery that bolsters the company’s brand promise and reputation for outstanding customer service. In addition to the design comps and a few XHTML & CSS templates, one of the final deliverables also included a digital style guide that documented the design rationale, color and imagery options, and how key pieces of the UI were structured and implemented.

Stopdesign worked with Happy Cog Studios and Capgemini’s corporate web team to redesign Capgemini’s site to showcase the integrated level of service that sets Capgemini apart from their competitors. The new design is clean, open, and flexible, allowing Capgemini to present large amounts of uncluttered, to-the-point information to its visitors, avoiding the buzzword-laden, over-dramatized fluff typical of other consultancies. The site’s code also takes advantage of semantic XHTML for markup and CSS to control all layout and design details, pushing Capgemini to the forefront of its category in terms of forward-thinking, standards-compliant design.