As Technical Director, Lead Programmer and Project Manager on the Powderbird website redesign with Owen Jones & Partners, I had an opportunity to harness a powerful group of technologies to tell this adventure ski tour company’s story with immersive photography, design and copy. I built a flexible CMS to allow for easy management of front-end design, assets and copy, as well as a back-end that handles ski tour reservations and user management.
When Jack Phillips and Andrew Lightman met with me at Owen Jones to kick off development of the new IIA website, I knew immediately that their level of engagement was going to have a hugely positive influence on the project. When stakeholders participate in discovery and stay engaged throughout a project, from requirements-gathering through development and testing, it has a much greater chance of being successful than those lacking that kind of engagement.
This internal project with Owen Jones & Partners was one of the more fun projects I had the opportunity to work on with Adobe. I was able to apply a test-driven development approach to building an experience that was easy, fast and intuitive to use. The goal was to build a community platform where students could post videos, photos and written content, and be rated by program managers, who could communicate back through a custom messaging system.