Christian M. Nicolás

Powered by C3

admin — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:17:09 +0000

Powered by C3 is an initiative formed by the marketing and communications organisation, Select NY. I worked with Nice Agency to produce social networking applications with the aim to discover and nuture the development of unique content. ‘Content by C3′ is directed at individuals working in the creative industry, and ‘Highlights by C3′ is directed at hair stylists and technicians

Initial Stages

We held a series of workshops with the clients and potential users and conducted some research to get some understanding of the several domains we were looking to create the applications for. In this stage I worked on development of some user flows and persona development. With this information we worked with some of the key stakeholders to consolidate their initials ideas with our understanding to construct an initial design concept

From the development of the design concept and some set user stories, I worked on a set of wireframes that outlined the specifications of the interface and the different types of user interactions of certain elements

I also worked on some initial UI visual style and the production of assets for front-end flex development. During the development stages I also working with the developer at fine tuning the user interactions with the application

Agency: Nice Agency
Client: Powered by C3 / Select NY
Account Director:Ryan Hall
Visual Design: Christian Nicolás / Alastair Holmes
User Experience: Christian Nicolás

iWonder

admin — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:19:14 +0000

Nice worked in conjunction with the globally renowned DJ Pete Tong and Music Technology to develop a iWonder. iWonder is an application which intelligently analyses your personal music collection and makes recommendations using a mix of your music and a few choice recommendations from Pete Tong’s 20 year broadcast history, providing you with playlists. The experience is as if Pete created a personal playlist just for you using your own music and some of his classics.

Initial Stages

Initial research was conducted of similar applications for both mobile and desktop platforms. Several workshops were conducted to develop and understanding the needs of the users and other primary stakeholders. This research was also used to identify and develop a set of personas.

Following the presentation of an initial user experience concept to the client I created a set of process flows and wireframes to outline the specifications and interactions for the desktop experience.

Working with the technical architect to understand the limitations of the technologies the next stage was to look at streamlining the experience for mobile in the iOS and Android platforms.

Agency: Nice Agency
Client: Music Technology
Account Director:Ryan Hall
User Experience/IA: Christian Nicolás
Visual Design: Alastair Holmes, Oliver Sutton

MS Matrix

admin — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Morgan Stanley Matrix, has been known as one of the largest undertakings of a Rich Internet Application using the Adobe® Flash® Platform.

I was fortunate enough to be part of a small but talented User Experience (UX) team that helped define and produce a visually rich and engaging experience for this trading platform. This project allowed me not to work collaboratively with a highly skilled information architect but to also work individually to work through the user narrative when required.

This achievement in the RIA space was presented at Adobe Max in 2009 and also a nominee at 2009 MAX Awards in the area of Enterprise Productivity.

Due to the nature of Enterprise applications I am unable to display any screens of MS Matrix, but watch the video on the Adobe Max site to get an overall feel of the platform.

LCCA

admin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:00:58 +0000

I was tasked to redesign the site for the London Climate Change Agency (LCCA), an organisation led by the London Development Agency (LDA) to facilitate decentralised low energy and zero-carbon projects for London.

We proposed a rich experience highlighting projects with video and also a number of widgets.

However in late 2008 along with the change in government, the LDA absorbed the LCCA unfortunately was not pushed live.

Agency: The Team
Client: London Climate Change Agency / London Development Agency
Creative Director: Will Bloor
Visual Designer: Christian Nicolás
Development Lead: Gavin Brook

Capita Offshore Intranet

admin — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:00:34 +0000

I was tasked to design a intranet for one of the UK’s largest outsourcing companies, Capita. This intranet would be implemented into markets such as Mumbai delivering relevant and engaging content to its staff in their specific area.

Agency: The Team
Client: Capita
Creative Director: Will Bloor
Visual Designer: Christian Nicolás
Development Lead: Gavin Brook

Saint Augustine Academy SS07

admin — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:00:03 +0000

As part of the Sydney based fashion label Saint Augustine Academy up until recently designed and built the site for each collection for a period of 6 seasons.

The sites were built using XHTML/CSS rather than with Flash as part of a strategy to push the brand and the site to the top of search results of the major search engines.

AMEX DotCom Redesign

admin — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:00:13 +0000

I was fortunate to be part of the redesign of the global templates for American Express (AMEX).

The initial discovery process was led by James Deeley at which time I was responsible for the visual design a number of the templates including the homepage that would appear in the major AMEX sites .

I was later the Creative Lead for the later stage of the project, fine tuning the site templates and providing guidance for the visual design for its adoption into other markets.

Agency: OgilvyOne, OgilvyInteractive
Client: American Express
Project Creative Lead: James Deeley (Phase 1), Christian Nicolás (Phase 2)
Senior Designer: Christian Nicolás
Designer: Nick Ridley
Technical Lead: Thorkild Clausen

Vaseline

admin — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:00:01 +0000

Vaseline.com prior to it’s redesign was completely developed in Flash. However, moving forward, Uniliver wanted a site that was more extensible and also compliant with HTML/CSS standards. Teamed with Art Director Mariota Essery, we redesigned a series of flexible templates consisting of translucent panels so that we could utilise the full screen photography.

Agency: OgilvyOne/OgilvyInteractive
Client: Unilever
Creative Director: Bo Hellberg
Art Director: Mariota Essery
Visual Designer: Christian Nicolás
Development Lead: Thorkild Clausen

MasterCard – All Blacks

admin — Mon, 01 May 2006 18:00:23 +0000

Promotion for MasterCard New Zealand comprising of:
Website Design
Online Advertising

Agency: MRM Worldwide / McCann Worldgroup (Sydney)
Client: MasterCard
Creative Director: Clint Nielsen
Senior Designer: Christian Nicolás
Developer: Bruce Collier

Microsoft Partner Program

admin — Sun, 01 May 2005 18:00:33 +0000

Small Business is Big Business

The brief was to design the environment and direct marketing material for an event for the Micosoft Partner Program called “Small Business is Big Business”

We delivered the following for the conference:
» Invitational Letter to the Microsoft Partner
» Supplementary Direct Marketing Material
» X-Stand Banner for the event
» Powerpoint slide templates for the event
» Supporting banners to be placed on the Microsoft Australia website

X-Stand Banner Mockup

Agency: MRM Worldwide, Sydney
Client: Microsoft Partner Program
Creative Lead: Matthew Austin
Visual Designer: Christian Nicolás
Account Manager: Damon Sloane