StudyBlue Redesign

Starting with the relaunch of the marcom site and other product/marketing initiatives–such as Class Stats, Study Guides, mobile quizzing and SEO display screens–a beta release of the new StudyBlue is live!

All platform apps (web, iOS, Android) have been overhauled in terms of brand identity, visual and experience design–plus some very nifty back-end and code updates that have radically improved performance.

Here’s the new design direction, and here’s what TechCrunch had to say about it all recently.

New StudyBlue Android app

Redesigned and completely rewritten to compliment the most current Android UX patterns this was my first assignment at StudyBlue. I got involved during the last phase of the project and worked to help iron out kinks, update graphics and help the launch promotion.

I got to test out the new app, and I like how easy it is to use.

– Jennifer Roland, Edcetera

Incarnations

While I ponder my next career move I [naturally] find myself looking back at previous roles and ventures… and assessing them — kindly for the most part — for what they taught me about this industry and my place within it.

Very early version of my studio, 03tilt’s website.

Last version of the website.

I feel cathartic but also have a strong sense of my mounting brio as I review my achievements, retool my portfolio, and have mutually persuasive conversations with start-ups about the next big thing.

Meeting new people with ingenious ideas, gaining insights into new businesses, markets, and product spaces has me bristling with excitement.

Helping to bring start-ups out of the design and customer experience wilderness is what I love to do and is what I do best:

SugarSync 2.0 beta takes on Dropbox with modern design and iDisk-like virtual drive… a minimalist and centralized new design… A handsome black, green, gray, and red color palette adorns the new app from head to toe… the new app is breathtakingly modern – The Verge

a fresh new interface… – The Next Web

…dramatically overhauled and simplified user interface – Macworld

I’m looking forward to my next challenge.

SugarSync: Android app photo view, lower portion showing navigation

Design for Android

The new SugarSync Android app is a richly functional mobile experience with all the updated branding and user experience that I’ve been working so hard on (see previous posts).

If Android is the future of mobile then this app is the future of mobile cloud services! If you’re Android-enabled take it for a spin and let me know what you think.

SugarSync 2.0 goes GA

The SugarSync redesign is out in the wild for real (post public beta) and as Senior Designer I am very proud of the way it has all turned out!

If you’d like to check it all out you can get a 5 GB account and all the mobile apps you’ll ever need. Customers and commentators are loving it, let me know what you think in the comments below.

Here’s a company blog post and press to date (highlights include: PC World, PC Magazine).

SugarSync 2.0 beta – desktop app

…a fresh new interface – The Next Web

SugarSync 2.0 beta takes on Dropbox with modern design and iDisk-like virtual drive… a minimalist and centralized new design… A handsome black, green, gray, and red color palette adorns the new app from head to toe… the new app is breathtakingly modern” – The Verge

…dramatically overhauled and simplified user interface – Macworld

The new desktop application is now in public beta! The UI/UX has recently been updated based on private beta feedback–yes, we responded very quickly–and I will talk about this in another post.

I will also be profiling the web and mobile (iOS, Android, Windows Phone) applications very soon. Among other accolades the app won PC Magazine’s Editor’s Choice Award.

Neil Mackintosh

My career