Welcome to a bigger, clearer, and a fresh new design of T Incorporated. My friend Mike Davidson likes to call this T Incorporated bad vision edition. I wouldn’t go quite that far, but with this redesign I pushed myself to really go big and bring the content forward. I wanted to stop hiding behind all of the meta data of my old design and push to have my work front and center. With my first iteration of T Incorporated a few years back, I was so excited to show all of the various information about the data I was pulling in. As a result the content itself started to get lost in the shuffle. I became far to enamored with what I could do instead of what I wanted to be presenting or letting the content stand on its own.

This design is a response to that but in the end I wanted to address a few main things:

1. Make the site easier to read and hopefully encourage myself to write more
2. Give myself more flexibility with the posts themselves. I often found I wanted to put a large photo in a post but the previous design didn’t allow it.
3. Simplify without blindly removing valuable content or meta-data
4. Highlight the photos even more by putting them on a dark background

This has been a nights and weekends project for a few months now, today was just time to launch it and move on. Designing for myself is such a difficult process, and in the end, just launching it is often the hardest part. There’s plenty of little things that I quite like with the design. The large photos on the dark background, the photo crop in the stream, as well as the stream itself and the large icons that denote the various sections. I also pushed my javascript skills a bit and you can now use the arrow keys (in Safari only for now) to flip through photos, posts, the stream, etc. It’s a hidden feature but one I absolutely love for myself.

The design is still powered by Django, bringing in my content via API’s from Flickr, Twitter, Delicious and others (hopefully Facebook someday here soon).

It’s not a massive shift, but one that pays homage to the old design while prioritizing the content first.

As always, I’d love to hear what people think!