This page contains screen shots of some of the work we've done for select clients, along with descriptions of some of the highlights and challenges of each of the completed projects. Visit these sites to see examples of our designs at work, or to get ideas about how your message can be made more powerful by the interactive technologies of the web.
Clients
Each of the sites below was designed and built by Semiograph personnel. In some instances, certain pages within a site may have been set up so that content can be maintained and updated by clients.
The design for the site of the recently merged Department of Anthropology. History and Social Medicine at the University of San Francisco posed content consolidation challenges and demanded especially complex usability considerations.
Facing staffing reductions, the department wanted to use a website to relieve some of the burden of its administative staff, which had been overly busy answering admissions and course-related questions.
An intuitive, highly interactive interface design featuring jump menus and complex imageswaps allowed the department to free up staff for more critical pursuits, while also providing a forum for the presentation of faculty research projects in the form of slide-show photo essays.
The Organs Watch site uses a familiar folder metaphor to organize access to well-documented data and narratives that are nonetheless sometimes controversial and shocking.
Careful design helps to convey the sobering message of the site in a number of ways. An interactive map makes unmistakable the global nature of the isssues under discussion, for example, while a photo essay in slide-show format puts faces with some of the ethnographically collected material in unavoidably powerful ways.
The program in Health Science and Human Survival provides a clearing house for information of interest to the international health community in the Bay Area and elsewhere.
One of the goals for the program's website is to make it immediately clear to visitors what information is most current, especially with regard to upcoming meetings, events and symposia.
The site utilizes scrolling news tickers to present the newest information, and is optimized to receive updates in a dynamic fashion from externally editable files that can be maintained by program personnel.
Tyler Tutorial Services needed a clean look, and a conservsative yet contemporary feel to enhance their image as a high-quality option in the crowded Bay Area educational services market.
By utilizing external cascading style sheets and understated interactivity, the site mirrors the efficient, responsive style of the company.
Feedback forms available on the website serve to streamline the screening process, and to match potential students with tutors, drastically reducing the administrative time formerly associated with these tasks.
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Part of a project intended to make resources at the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology more readily accessible to middle school children, The Living Culture and History of California Indians website utilizes simple image-map navigation and a frames-based design.
The site also features a series of interactive games and quizzes, and serves as the interface to a comprehensive set of resources on California Indians.
