so from 7:30am on saturday until about 2:30pm on sunday, i worked with a small group of folks to redesign a website for a non-profit- kairos dance.
the official story
sierra bravo (event sponsors) site
channel 5 news- developer interview
channel 5 news- non-profit interview
pics (i'll be adding mine to my flickr account soon, i hope)
here are pics just from our team (from maley)
also, you can see a million pictures from the event here
about our team
the guy in that news story was kris, he was our awesome designer/developer extraordinaire. we also had andrew on the design/video front. lori rocked it as our IA. erika (captain) and maley wrote the heck out of that site, and marc and forrest programmed from the ground up. i tried to help the day go smoothly by managing the process and client and refilling countless glasses of soda and red bull.
about our non-profit- kairos dance
kairos dance is a group committed to transforming lives through movement and story. their vision is really about how intergenerational dance in the community can reconnect us to ourselves and each other.
maria (and husband cris), reggie, tom and kyle all represented kairos. after the event was over, the group that put the event on, sierra bravo, said that each team had independently declared that their client was the best in the room, and each client had independently declared the same about thier team, which is a very nice thing to have happen. but since our client brought a creative brief, an initial IA, their own creative director and gave us the creative freedom to really shine, i am convinced our client really was the best in the room.
the new website we created for them will really help them take that next step forward and be able to win and collect the support they need to continue their work. i was so glad to be a part of the team that helped them get there.
before and after
here is their home page before and after the redesign:
so that's the romantic story, here's the not-so-romantic...
i watched two inverse processes happen concurrently on saturday. our team went from excited and energized to exhausted and testy, while our client went from nervous and anxious to ecstatic!! and elated!! can you blame them? they watched a website materialize right before their very eyes- a website that will help them do more of the thing they so love to do.
it was difficult to watch our team get so tired and exhausted. i think it made it hard for us all to enjoy the thing we had just done. it's hard to get perspective when we hadn't gotten any sleep, the site wasn't completely error-free, i think we all felt responsible in our own way, and everyone in the room was sort of on top of each other.
we did a pretty great thing and in that moment it was so hard to enjoy that. also, with the client jumping around in excitement, it's hard not to pick up on that contrast and feel a little worse for it. it's easier to feel good about what happened after getting some space from it, but it was a difficult challenge to say the least.
also, big bummer, someone hit lori's car in the parking lot, which cost her a $500 deductable and also emotional angst about whether or not she is the recipient of bad karma. after what she just did all weekend??? if she somehow deserves what she got, that's not the kind of karma i want to believe in. ;-)
back to the happy
i'm thankful that i had the opportunity to work with such a bright and talented team. i'm thankful for the new networking connections i've made. i learned a lot about myself and how i deal with this sort of challenge. i got to be part of a large awesome process that did a lot of great work for minneapolis.
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