The primary challenge for the Catholic Relief Services rebranding project was coming up with a flexible yet consistent development process that could scale across multiple CMS (content management system) platforms and theme architectures.
challenge
role
For this particular project, the finished look and feel was already established by one heck of a designer at Catholic Relief Services (hey Meg!), so the bulk of the creative work was already done before I even stepped foot int he door.
With that said, after analyzing the many intracacies of each of the development environments and their themes, it became increasingly apparent that was not going to be a cakewalk.
development phase
I created the front-end piece of this application using the angular material framework.
Being that I'm in the process of learning angular, I strayed away from routing and other core angular concepts, and strictly provided clean markup for the team to incorporate based on the final mockups that the client signed off on.
key takeaways
When working with a team that's been put together for a specific project that has no past experience working together, I found that my leadership and a proven process were essential to successfully completing the project.