Krystall & Bahl (Interactive Development Assignment 1)

This website is for the fictitious company “Krystall & Bahl”, a company that provides a range of services from web development to graphic design.
The website details an overview of the company, as well as the company’s works and contact information, for potential clients to view.

Design Rationale
Features
Credits
Licence

Design Rationale

As the website is for a fictitious design firm, the website is designed to be visually appealing and unique, while still being functional and easy to use.

The hero section is composed of overlapping elements, with an SVG logo and a rotating radial text behind it. In front of all of this is the agency’s name.
This differs from the proposed grid-like layout of elements in the wireframe due to the scrapping of the idea due to complexity and time constraints.

The about section stars the photos of the agency’s “founders”, with a short description of the agency.
The photos are styled as polaroids, and are positioned to look as if they were “scattered” onto the webpage.

The works section is short and sweet while giving clients enough images to know the agency’s style and competency quickly.

The contact section is a simple contact card with a mouse-aware tilt effect, which can be clicked on to redirect to the users’ email client.
This was chosen over a contact form not due to complexity, but contact forms being outdated and not as user-friendly as a simple email link.

All design choices were made to align with the agency’s fictitious brand of being “human-first”, a la user-first and user-friendly.

Prototype: src/wireframe.xd

Features

Sticky Universal Navigation Menu
This allows the user to navigate the website easily at any point in the page.
Fully Responsive to Breakpoints Until ~350px
This supports the majority of mobile devices, including the iPhone SE.
Smooth Scrolling
This provides a smooth scrolling experience for clients.
Text with Blend Colours
This provides a unique visual experience for clients, and allows for text to contrast with the background.
Mouse-aware Tilt Effect (on Contact Card)
This provides a unique visual experience for clients interested in contacting the fictitious agency, is fun, and allows for the contact card to stand out interaction-wise.

Credits

Media

Photo of “krystall”
```
public/assets/webp/krystall.webp
src/assets/png/krystall.png
```
Features Charlene
Provided by Jun Yang
Licence: All Rights Reserved
Photo of “bahl”
```
public/assets/webp/bahl.webp
src/assets/png/bahl.png
```
Features Simone
Provided by Toby
Licence: All Rights Reserved

Externally Sourced/Generated Code

css reset
```
public/assets/css/preflight.css
```
From https://unpkg.com/tailwindcss@^3/src/css/preflight.css
Licence: MIT Licence
Material Design 3 Colour Tokens
```
public/assets/css/colors.module.css
public/assets/css/theme.css
public/assets/css/theme.dark.css
```
From https://m3.material.io/theme-builder#/custom
Licence: Same as Repository

External Technologies Used

Lenis by Studio Freight

Lenis was included to provide smooth scrolling on the website.

https://github.com/studio-freight/lenis
vanilla-tilt.js by micku7zu

vanilla-tilt.js was included to provide the on-hover mouse-aware tilt effect on the contact card.

https://github.com/micku7zu/vanilla-tilt.js

Fonts

DT Nightingale by Celia Yew under Death to Typography

Licence: SIL Open Font Licence v1.1

Copyright © 2021, Death of Typography (DOT) and Original Designer
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at:
http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

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BDO Grotesk by Deni Anggara and Fadhl Haqq under Lokal Container

public/assets/woff2/bdogrotesk/*
public/assets/otf/bdogrotesk/*

https://lokalcontainer.com/BDO-Grotesk