Diamond Schmitt Architects
With twenty new projects going live this year Diamond Schmitt’s new website is truly communicating the pulse of the company.
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VIEW BY GRID OR BY LIST
Users can change the view and browse projects in a visual grid-view or in a list with more detailed information.
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Video Player
The video player is integrated into the website’s visual aesthetic so the experience remains consistent even if a user wants to view a video.
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Full Screen
Photos this beautiful deserve to be seen as large as possible – each project contains a option to open a full-screen image gallery.
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Timeline
Diamond Schmitt’s history page was designed to function as an interactive timeline. Users can scrub through time and see some of the company’s most renowned works.
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Editorial Variety
To keep pages fresh and interesting, we designed pages like an editorial and not a typical webpage. The site takes advantage of 21 unique templates.
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Culture
The firm’s most important assets are its people and community. A careers and culture section was designed to explain how Diamond Schmitt promotes diversity and sustainability, providing potential employees with a good idea of the firm’s character and values.
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Intranet
With the success of the new site, Evoke Solutions was also asked to design the company’s intranet.
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The intranet maintained the clean and sophisticated style established in the main site.
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Strategy
The key strategy to the site redesign was to allow for a universal navigation to clearly provide a high-level view of their services, practice areas and projects. Detailed analytics allow the firm to adjust their messaging on a regular basis.
The first step to creating a great website is taking the time to develop a solid foundation. Built on a state of the art CMS platform, Evoke Solutions has empowered DSAI with a powerful tool to showcase their most recent work, and the ability to adjust the messaging and information architecture to reflect user metrics.
Information Architecture and Wireframing
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Design Concepts
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Specifications/QA
When sending out files to the developers, we always create a comprehensive CSS style guide for all fonts, links buttons etc. As a part of our web development process, all changes are thoroughly documented in the QA step.
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We experimented with multiple styles and ways of organizing the data before we arrived at the final, ideal solution.
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