Xavier Connelly

Across multiple areas of design, I create technology to enhance peoples lives.

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Free Association (Web Development, Web Design) is a new publishing platform promoting engaging writing within the arts. I built the website, connecting it to a WordPress backend.

During the early stages of the pandemic confusion was high. Together with health consultant, Tristan Louis, I built Covid Assist (Web Development, Web Design) to communicate what welfare was available to those effected.

Website portfolio design and build for Chicago based architect James Carter (Web Development | Web Design) We collaborated closely working towards an immersive design which voiced the engaging, playful nature of his practice.

Dawn Press (Business Development | Print Design | Service Design) was one of the world’s first dedicated Risograph printers. I ran all aspects of the business independently, from initial concept and market testing through to ongoing operations such as design, printing, client interviews and student workshops.

Having surveyed the options, I decided on WordPress for its great flexibility, low ongoing costs as well as being well paired with the client’s previous knowledge of CMS interfaces. This gave me the opportunity to learn basic PHP, whilst further developing my front-end coding skills.

The resulting backend was an intuitive experience for the client - using tags and custom fields to organise the content. The website itself was built largely as a single page application - providing fluid navigation for users.