I’ve been coding websites since 2001, and a lot has changed! I love keeping up with current standards and specs, as well as trends and best practices. From mobile-first to CSS3 flexboxes and grid as they became supported in browsers…web coding is always changing and evolving.
Web pages and responsive design at Verisk Extreme Event Solutions (formerly AIR)
I was largely responsible for web collateral for eight years at Verisk Extreme Event Solutions (formerly AIR). The site uses the Bootstrap framework, and I was tasked with web graphic design and coding.
I was also the principle front end architect of the redesign of this site from its formerly non-responsive layout, including guiding decisions on how the menus would operate on desktop and mobile, various page template layouts, and CSS/HTML code handoffs to our web dev backend team. Below are some pages I’ve designed and developed, or templated.
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Infographics for Verisk EES
Our team at AIR/Verisk worked on a number of web-facing projects and pages. We decided to move to responsive layouts for infographics instead of static images. Our talented illustrator handed off the design files, and my job was to translate that into web code and also ensure that it would lay out as screen size changed to tablet and mobile, adding custom CSS when encountering Bootstrap limitations.
On this Japan Typhoon infographic, layout had to be carefully orchestrated so the image and text order still made sense and also was readable at different screen sizes.
Verisk EES ALERT web product
Verisk EES’s ALERT web product is one of the key offerings for their insurance clients, monitoring major disasters around the world. It consists of detailed HTML emails sent to clients (templates I designed and coded) during or post disaster, which sends them to the ALERT website for more updates. The redesign of this important website where clients go to not only read summaries of ongoing or past natural and manmade disasters, but also download files to plug into Verisk’s Touchstone software, went through a lot of C-suite approvals. Stakeholders wanted to keep the map with icons from the previous iteration, but the site badly needed a design makeover. I worked with backend developers to hand off front end HTML5/CSS3 code.
Search pages for Verisk EES
The transition to a new CMS and new website design early in my time at Verisk EES came with many new templates that needed completely new responsive design. Stakeholders wanted the search results page to retain many of its search filters and other layout elements, and it was my job to make sure that the design led the user to understand what they were looking at and how to adjust and refine their search. This required a lot of UX understanding as well.
