http://www.eskapism.com/projects Projects feed for eskapism.com. Gets updated when new projects are added to the website portfolio. enhttp://www.eskapism.com/projects/cormorant-watch/Angling Trust.It is a new site enabling anglers to upload sightings of cormorants, mergansers and goosanders to help build a picture of their presence in the UK. More information about its goal can be found in this YouTube video.

The website itself was built on top of the Codeigniter PHP framework and includes an administration panel that queues submitted sightings for approval and enables the administrator to extract and export data using different filters. The map itself uses clustering to optimize the performance with large amounts of added sighting. Additionally, the reverse geocoding technique is used to determine the county of each sighting.

The design of the website was provided by the client, and its coding and back-end implementation was done by me.

The website can be found at http://www.cormorantwatch.org.]]>2011-06-14 23:01:21http://www.eskapism.com/projects/eskapism-lockinfo-theme-website/eskapism Lockinfo theme for the iPhone. It aims to provide information about the theme and its installation, features and upcoming updates. It also aggregates the newest tweets from the theme's Twitter account.
The latest additions to the website is an visual guide on the theme's features and a video demonstrating different parts of the design and the available actions and gestures.
The website can be found at http://theme.eskapism.com.]]>2010-06-27 01:47:03http://www.eskapism.com/projects/eskapism-lockinfo-theme/eskapism Lockinfo theme is a project for the iPhone. It is a HTML theme for the iPhone application Lockinfo. It is based of the Gruppled Lockinfo theme and evolve into something almost completely different. The code was optimized and rewritten to use the jQuery JavaScript Framework leveraging its awesome animation and DOM manipulation features. The project is built around three main ideas:

• Many and different customization options - from little tweaks to major UI design changes.
• Everything that can be done with a gesture (swipe, tap) instead of a button should be done so.
• Simple, powerful and beautiful UI

To help the popularization of the theme a project website and a Twitter account were created.]]>2010-05-09 00:44:43http://www.eskapism.com/projects/medical-academy-holiday-house/ The website leverages Flash technology - some examples are: the website navigation, featuring animated elements to help the visual presentation of page content, an Apple-style picture gallery with 3D-Effects. All content of the website is structured in small, short blocks. This, combined with enough white space and accurately designed and placed graphic elements conveys a feeling of peace and tranquility which perfectly depicts the resort conditions.

The use of modern technologies, good design decisions and a clean look makes this online presentation the perfect starting point when searching for a place to spend your Black Sea holiday.]]>2008-08-14 16:18:15http://www.eskapism.com/projects/star-wars-advertising/Advertising psychology class. The assignment was to develop an advertising campaign for a product of choice - in this case - a Star Wars video game accompanied by various Star Wars merchandise. An advertising spot and a poster were planed, designed and produced. ]]>2008-07-16 16:17:48http://www.eskapism.com/projects/crimeblips/ crime maps. These web applications are very popular in the US and usually display different crime data on a map. This includes crime scenes and reports from police feeds.

The idea behind Crimeblips (from "crime" and "blips" a.k.a. radar sounds) was to integrate that information with different social and demographic data to be able to make some conclusions about connections in between and identify trends. The resulting application provides up-to-date crime statistics for neighborhoods throughout Berlin (Germany). The application maps, visualizes, and analyzes crime incident patterns, allowing users to identify crime hot spots, trends and general patterns. The occurrences, events and data are extracted from public press releases of the City of Berlin Police Department.

The application uses for its visualization Google Maps as a base and builds upon it an abstraction layer that displays relevant information and interesting locations. By interacting with a custom built interface the user is able to interact with the map data and shape it in many ways to support trends research and visual data comparison. The source data of the crime-mapping application Crimeblips is collected via a web crawler robot that searches through the City of Berlin Police Department's public news and crime feeds, parses data and organizes it in internal structures for visualization. Apart from the mapped crime data additional statistics are provided that enable a bridge to be made between crime data and district population, demographics and race, which raise interesting questions and trends.]]>2008-07-15 15:20:04http://www.eskapism.com/projects/5th-workshop-ellipsometry/"5th Workshop Ellipsometry" - an event at the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern. It presented various information about the workshop including maps and public transport routes. An overall visual presentation of the hosting city of Zweibrücken and the workshop proceedings were a key part in the website's content.

The main purpose of this website was to give all necessary information to attendees and presenters at the workshop. It provided the functionality to register and upload presentation abstracts which later were reviewed by the organizing committee. Using these abstract descriptions it was possible to compose the workshop schedule and post it online for all attendees to view. The powerful administration area included even more CMS-like functionality e.g. user-managament and content editing.
A modified version (no dynamic workshop schedule, no public transport routes) of the website can be found at www.wse-2009.de]]>2008-07-14 16:16:50http://www.eskapism.com/projects/a-s-engineering/" A.S.Engineering" containing information about the company itself and all completed and ongoing projects. The main focus of the website was to act as a portfolio for all completed buildings that provided information and visual material about them and their construction.
The website administrator was given a powerful CMS that controlled the content of the website which enabled him to freely edit building information, add floors and apartments with their respective construction plans and change their sale status.

The website can be found at www.a-s-engineering.com.]]>2008-06-17 16:17:12http://www.eskapism.com/projects/eskapism-colorful-swirls/To improve readability, prevent information overflow and to attract user attention only to key areas only basic information is shown. All additional information is available through website interaction.

The design was implemented as a HTML & CSS mock-up. JavaScript was used for animating content changes, menu navigation and toggling of additional information.]]>2008-03-25 15:54:25http://www.eskapism.com/projects/beyond-the-imagination/flash website using extensively dynamics and movement for the visualization. Its main design elements is an universe abstraction with all the key pages as space entities. The main content is always displayed within the "empty space" section. Every time a new page is loaded the "camera" moves to the corresponding point in space and all content is dynamically introduced while key elements are highlighted.

All data is loaded dynamically from a database using XML as a mediator format while the front-end consists of a number of flash files that are loaded and generated automatically on user interaction.]]>2008-03-20 15:56:23http://www.eskapism.com/projects/interactive-campusguide/Open Doors Day at the University in Zweibrücken a portal website was needed to handle the schedule and management of lectures, presentations and demos finding place on campus. It's goal was to help students and guests orientation on campus grounds.

The website is built using Java, JSP and the Struts Framework and uses heavily Ajax and JavaScript - mainly for its administration area and content management. It's designed in a similar manner to the University website to be easily integrated without confusing guests and other interested parties. Several interactive Flash elements were integrated into the Campusguide including an map of University grounds with quick links to many points of interest.

The Joy of Use of the application was a very important aspect during the implementation and therefore the website was evaluated against several usability heuristics and undergone many usability tests to perfect the application workflow.]]>2008-01-26 15:55:49http://www.eskapism.com/projects/spaghetti-monster/www.3drender.com which made for the subject Computer Animation and Visualization. It was inspired by some Tarantino and Rodriguez movies.]]>2007-12-14 16:16:21http://www.eskapism.com/projects/portfolio-website-2/2006-10-28 15:57:03http://www.eskapism.com/projects/portfolio-website/2006-10-15 15:57:35