Company: Sizehive.com
Designer: Chris Robinson
Created: 2008
Posted: January 19th, 2009 by chris_robinson
Social networking finally helps you find the right size shoes and pants. This logo needed to be about sizing and social networking. Both the name and the logo were the result of Chris’ art direction.
“Chris is a tremendous asset to any organization that seeks design leadership and wants to foster a creative culture. He knows how to lead cross functional redesign and rebrand efforts large and small, and can deploy product visions from inception, iteration and live to site.”
-Chris Brown, Senior UI Designer, PayPal
“Chris is extremely approachable and always willing to share knowledge. He takes the time to walk you through how to do something (even if it’s the not the first time he’s shown you) and makes you feel comfortable, creating an environment where it’s easy to learn from others. His sense of humor lightens the atmosphere and inspires people to open up and be themselves.”
-Monica Keefe, Lead Designer, Involution Studio
“I cannot say enough about Chris Robinson. He is, to this day, one of the best Art Directors I have ever worked with. Chris was highly organized and thorough; was an incredible people manager, fostered innovation in his group, and collaborated across functions. He was regarded as an expert in his field by upper management; was revered as a mentor by his direct reports; and was the best partner a creative peer could ever have.”
-Jonah Otis, Manager, Marketing Communications, PayPal
Company: undisclosed
Designer: Chris Robinson
Created: 2008
Posted: December 15th, 2008 by chris_robinson
Given enough time untended, and any UI can become cluttered. When it comes to moderated message boards with one code base and hundreds of high-tech clients, this is especially true. Drop-down boxes with over 25 commands located at the extreme top and bottom of a 1400 pixel display were getting out of hand.
Company: undisclosed
Designer: Chris Robinson
Created: 2008
Posted: December 15th, 2008 by chris_robinson
It’s not everyday that a client asks you to blue-sky a time-based browsing metaphor for discussion boards. This component was designed to speed users to relevant content, but keep the context provided by clusters of comments on a time line.
Company: undisclosed
Designer: Chris Robinson, Beth Miles, Monica Keefe
Created: 2008
Posted: December 15th, 2008 by chris_robinson
When one of the biggest consumer software companies in the world needed a redesign, they came to Involution Studios. My focus was on the visual metaphor and graphical assets as well as trimming down existing functionality to its core for a widget-based tool implementation.
“Chris is a great designer, thinker and personality to have around at your company. Whether it’s digging down the trenches to solve complex interface problems on large software projects like he’s done while at Involution Studios, or coming up with big, new product ideas…”
-Andrei Herasimchuk, Principal, Involution Studios
Company: Involution Studios
Designer: Chris Robinson
Created: 2008
Posted: December 13th, 2008 by chris_robinson
It was time for Involution Studios to dust off their old website and make it fit their skill and personality. The studio is filled with talented designers and developers, so it was exciting to set the design template in motion.
Company: Yappari.com
Designer: Chris Robinson
Created: 2008
Posted: December 12th, 2008 by chris_robinson
I’m a big fan of t-shirts, jenglish, and building websites, so this was really just inevitable. What I didn’t count on was all the irritation with building a site with x-cart as a foundation. Yikes.
Designer: Chris Robinson
Created: 2007
Posted: December 12th, 2008 by chris_robinson
During the middle of 2007 Facebook was beginning to meet with top brands to talk to them about the power of Social Media. The message is very clear nw, but at the time, none of the top media companies quite had a handle on the importance of companies like Facebook.
Company: Facebook
Designer: Chris Robinson
Created: 2007
Posted: December 12th, 2008 by chris_robinson
Despite the fact that Facebook is the fastest growing social website in the world, advertisers can’t wrap their heads around the power of 23 million users. Build presentation tools that humanize the brand and bring the power of Facebook in sharp focus for advertisers and potential partners.
Company: Facebook
Designer: Chris Robinson, Micah Kasman
Created: 2007
Posted: December 12th, 2008 by chris_robinson
Facebook is about to launch a serious developer network. Each local branch wants autonomy over the brand and frankly we agree. Now, design initial assets, including branding guidelines, to get the initial launch cities going.
Company: PayPal
Designer: Chris Robinson
Created: 2002
Posted: December 10th, 2008 by chris_robinson
Build the first family of branded icons for the world’s fastest growing payment site
PayPal was a young company and had no visual identity other than a logo and a basic color. They needed a set of icons that could be the foundation of a visual brand. The icons needed to represent core functionality which exemplify the new brand guidelines and help users quickly find content.
Company: Quindi
Designer: Chris Robinson
Created: 2001
Posted: December 10th, 2008 by chris_robinson
Bring unity and enthusiasm to a diverse engineering team
Quindi was a small company of 13 building a new way to capture meeting notes with multiple-camera video capture and synchronized note taking. They had an impressive team of engineers lead by the former head of Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University. The breakneck development schedule left little time for levity, or did it?