OFFF 2011 Website
Conceptor, UX designer
The brief
By showing our recap of OFFF 2010 Paris to Héctor (the organizer of the event), he quickly asked us wether we wanted to do the website. We got no restrictions what so ever, and were very open in what we wanted to do with the website.
The idea
Through research we discovered the most fun part about OFFF are the people you meet. So we wanted to have a website where it would be easy to connect with each other.
The concept
Apart from all the basic functionalities an event website should have, we added a profile which serves as a portfolio. Visitors could use this to add comments, and ask questions via the site to the speaker.
The result
Due to timing and budget (and many other problems), we had to leave out a lot of features. But the site is still here, and we got many good reactions.
Homepage during the festival
We wanted to give people a sense of what was happening right now at the festival. On the homepage you see the 2 or 3 artists who are speaking at this moment, and a live twitterfeed of tweets mentioning the artist. Underneath you can find the latest updates and some basic information about the festival.
Artist election
To make it easier for the organizer to make up an agenda, we asked visitors to vote on the artists they wanted to see. The artists you voted on were saved to your personal profile, so that once the agenda was live, you would get a personal agenda filled with all the artists you voted on.
Agenda
The agenda was one of the most difficult pages to make, since you had a lot of rooms, some static, some with a timeline. The most important rooms are at the top. You can browse through them via the timeline at the top. At the bottom you see the static rooms.
Artist profile
The artist profile had all the necessary info you needed: a small description, interesting links that might be mentioned in the presentation, social media links, downloads for a workshop, ... Underneath we worked out a system where you could both see the tweets come in that mention the artist, and see a list of questions people wanted to ask. You could vote on those questions, and at the end of the lecture, the most voted questions were answered. To ask a question, you had to be logged in. A form would appear for you to either send a tweet or ask a question.
Travel guide
Many people combined their visit to OFFF to a trip to Barcelona. So Héctor and his team collected a large amount of venues which we brought together in a travel guide. Logged in users could save locations they liked.
Profile
This is the profile visitors were able to make. It appeared as an overlay over whichever page you were browsing and enabled visitors to have a richer experience.
Project info
- Client:
- OFFF
- Company:
- Design is Dead, Emakina
- Date:
- June 2011
Tools used
Photoshop, Illustrator, Omnigraffle, Expression Engine, HTML5, CSS3
Credits
- Concept:
- Isabel Jablonski, Wes Nijssen, Laura Muls, Pieter Van Den Bosch
- Design:
- Isabel Jablonski, Wes Nijssen
