The first challenge of mobile design that I encountered was deciding between skinning the full version or creating a separate, targeted mobile instance. I’ve decided to just skin the site because having 2 copies of every post (one for full, one for mobile) is just silly.

The second challenge was dealing with all the pseudo sub-pages in the portfolio section. Multiple menus do fine on a computer screen, but on a 4” phone, every pixel is precious. However, after a few sketches I have developed a set of minimalistic wireframes that utilize every piece of content on the site without cluttering the available viewing space.

Check them out:

Stay tuned for further progress. Up next: CSS media queries.

Let me introduce Jeff Siswanto. Jeff is a second year computer science student at the university of waterloo. I haven’t bothered to ask him directly, but from the looks of things, Jeff wants to branch into the graphic design profession.

Jeff joined the Hockey.com team on Monday as a designer for his summer co-op term. He survived his first week. We gave him a warm up task of redesigning a bunch of our membership call out ads that our last contract designer screwed up terribly. Jeff is a little rough around the edges; tirelessly asks questions about rules and design direction, but

I’ll make a design rockstar out of him yet.

Hockey.com announced a few weeks ago it will be moving its offices from Guelph to Oakville this summer and as a result we have lost some key positions. Positions that are currently available are:

• Senior Manager, Online Marketing
• Web Application developer
• Online Producer
• Software Development, Team Lead

We work on a lot of cool stuff, building out new features every 2 weeks. Anyone in the GTA should check out the positions.