IXD • UX • DESIGN DIRECTION

Refinery

SAAS app for presenting images

Client

A SaaS company i founded – A beautifully simple & versatile web app for presenting collections of images to clients.

Brief

This venture was to scratch my own itch. To solve a problem creatives face every single day.

Involvement

Entire visual & interaction concept and design. Front-end design and dev. Backend development was done by other talented colleagues

Comment Screens

User Profile

Drag & drop images

Custom Icon Set

Palette

Mint
Primary
Melon
Sky Blue
Rasberry
Mellow Yellow
Cool White
White
Almost Black
Charcoal
Slate

Modals

Medium to long term

Product Vision

Whilst we launched with a simplified version of Refinery as seen above, the mid to long term vision for a  web-app to create  living-pitch decks for the tv & films industry.

What features were on the roadmap?

• Page layout templates
• Document style templates
• Ability to create multi page documents
• Embedded Audio
• Embedded Video (YouTube, Vimeo, custom)

User research

Tremendous amounts of research was done across many parts of production spectrum including.

Who found it most useful?

People who found it most useful were not visual designers, but creative & less technical types.

• Set Designers
• Wardrobe & Costume
• Casting Agencies
• Production Designers
• Producer & Directors

High-res wireframes for future features

Roadmap Wireframes