Curbngo Projects
Background
Curbngo is company that offers a wide range of services to restaurants and stores, including digitizing menus so that customers can order from the store with the Curbngo app, offering kiosks for ordering and checkout, creating custom websites, offering point-of-sale devices, a delivery management system, kitchen displays for orders, and more. My responsibilities included designing and building the websites in either Wix or an in-house
builder, designing business documents such as order forms and onboarding forms, upresing logos to appear cleaner on apps and kiosks, redesigning logos, creating ads for print and social media, creating designs for social media posts, editing videos, creating short animations, designing pitch presentations with the CEO, and other miscellaneous design tasks.
Company Website - curbngo.com
After learning web development on the job for about a year, I was asked to design, prototype, and build a new website for the company itself. It was my opinion that the company needed better presentation of itself and clearer information concerning what we can do and offer. With that in mind, I jumped at the chance to update this facet of the company's client-facing point of information to ensure Curbngo's overall success and to put my web dev skills to the test.
I used Bootstrap and Material Kit to help create the website. With the help of DevOps, we deployed the website. Post-launch, I maintained, updated, and refined the website with feedback and bug fixes.
App Loader Animation
I was tasked with creating the company's logo animation that would play when a user opens the app. The primary concerns for the animation were timing and timeframe. We did not want a long, drawn out animation to delay a user entering the app, but we still wanted a unique greeting to a welcome users. My supervisor wanted the animation to be the drawing of the stroke of the logo, so the creativity and specifics mostly came down to the "bounce" of the stroke and making sure there was still some character and motivation to the movement. They also asked for the animation to only last two seconds, at a maximum, so that the app could still appear snappy, responsive, and convenient. We experimented with a smiley face winking within the "o," but it was discarded for being too complex and time consuming.
Web Design in Wix
I was initially hired to only work on client websites with Wix, due to my familiarity with the platform. This included creating new sites for newly onboarded locations, and making edits or additions to already existing sites. Most often, location owners were too busy to sit down with me to talk about what they would like, or provide me with assets to create their website. Therefore,
I did a lot of the research and asset collection myself with the help of the internet, and created websites with minimal guidance. I created websites to the best of my ability and then sent preview sites to the clients for review. In this section, I have provided links to duplicate Wix sites (not the actual sites) for 3 websites I created from scratch.
I did a lot of the research and asset collection myself with the help of the internet, and created websites with minimal guidance. I created websites to the best of my ability and then sent preview sites to the clients for review. In this section, I have provided links to duplicate Wix sites (not the actual sites) for 3 websites I created from scratch.
Web Design with Curbngo's In-House Builder
Curbngo eventually decided to start hosting and building websites themselves, instead of using Wix. Therefore, I had to adapt to and learn a new, less developed builder. This meant learning how the builder itself worked, as well as learning HTML, CSS, and Javascript to better modify the websites, give each a personal touch, and fulfill more
complex client requests. I worked with the developer responsible for creating the builder and we collaborated on testing, coming up with new features, and implementation.
*Note: I have included video scroll throughs so that my intended design is still available, in case the website goes down, the restaurant closes for the season, the restaurant leaves as a client, changes are made by another designer, etc.
