Whilst visiting family in Arnhem Land I was approached by the Yirrkala Arts and Cultural Centre to reinvent their existing website. The aim of which was to showcase the rich historyand culture of the area whilst acting as an eCommerce revenue stream for the centre, making the most of the impressive indigenous art output. The result was two websites, one for the historical content and one to act as a virtual gallery, housed at a central umbrella site.

From the project's conception, I initiated a practice of working closely with indigenous and non-indigenous users, this included users with only limited computer skills as well as experienced users right through to the completion of the project to create:

- an interface that appeals and functions successfully to this very broad user base, including indignous and non-indigenous users, art buyers, cultural leaders and tourists;

- Incorporating the visual appeal of the natural assets of the physical landscape as much as possible in the UI to act as a selling point for both the cultural content as well as the artworks;

- Randomising the Home Page content on each load to promote equal exposure for the artists and represent all the different media whilst avoiding prioritisation content;

I worked with the development team to create a custom CMS using HTML, PHP and JavaScript to house the content which included using Sound Cloud to house the audio, YouTube to house the video and Flickr to house the vast image library. Using these free existing infrastructures meant cost savings as well as tested stability for the client.

These were many challenges I faced during this project, some language based, some geographical. The language barriers were overcome by conducting UI and UX workshops with the local indigenous leaders to devise solutions, with the very helpful aid of translators. The geographical factors were overcome using technologies such as Skype and screen sharing to iron out any confusions . launch

I worked closely with users at Fairfax Business Media and the ABC to wireframe and design this client-side UI for Switch Media Group's Video CMS. Then with the inhouse development team at Switch, worked to refine and execute this powerful backend

I conceptualised the drag and droppable 'Dashboard' modules which were built using Flex, housed in the HTML and PHP framework..