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<p>We knew that the process of creating this website was going to be a process. We didn't have prior knowledge of the particular market or how it would react to this type of offering. Therefore, we knew needed to get something online to be able to start testing with real users and get real feedback.</p>
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<imgsrc="./assets/img/res-tools/Wireframes.jpg" alt="Askew screenshot of annotated wireframes">
<p>I created the style guide to make sure we were approaching the design in a way that aligned with our potential users mindset. It gives the right logo, colors, fonts. and images to use, but <strong>why</strong>. </p>
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<imgsrc="./assets/img/res-tools/Styleguide.jpg" alt="Styleguide for the Resilience Tools final product">
<pclass="lead">I started working at WILL in 2007, straight out of college. I was immediately tasked with creating a new logo for the company. Then in 2015, we once again decided to update the branding so it more cohesively exuded who WILL is. Just before leaving will in early 2016, we finalized the logo below. The interesting part of seeing both logos side-by-side is that it not only shows the progression of how WILL has changed over the years, but how I as a designer have progressed in my skills and career.</p>
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<pclass="lead">I started working at WILL in 2007, straight out of college. I was immediately tasked with creating a new logo for the company. Then in 2015, we once again decided to update the branding so it more cohesively exuded who WILL is. Just before leaving will in early 2016, we finalized the new logo. The broken arrow represents the multiple pathways through WILL's interactive storylines.</p>
<pclass="ideal text-center">The interesting part of seeing both logos side-by-side is that it not only shows the progression of how WILL has changed over the years, but how I as a designer have progressed in my skills and career.</p>
<p>As a development team, we have kept a living style guide to help us in the development of all custom internal business development applications. It has evolved alongside of the branding.</p>
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<h3>Style Guide & Documentation</h3>
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<p>To maintain this new brand throughout our custom applications, as a development team, we kept a living style guide with detailed documentation.</p>
<p>To help with future iterations and implementation of the style guide, we built it as a gem that could be used by all of our Ruby on Rails applications. This way, we were tweak the styles in one place and they would update across all applications. It also helped with version control.</p>
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<h3>Component-Based Development</h3>
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<p>We built the more complex components as Ruby components and helpers for consistency and maintainability. The documentation would then show the resulting component, the code for ruby helper, and the resulting HTML.</p>
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<p>To help with future iterations and implementation of the style guide, we maintained the components in a Ruby gem that could be used by all of our applications. This way, when we altered the HTML and CSS in one place they would update across all applications.</p>
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