Smart Wuxi Website by ZXT Studio - Xiner Zheng is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award in Website and Web Design Competition Category.
IronWeb· 2021
Smart Wuxi Website
Client: Studio ZXT
A' Design Award Winner in Web Category
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About Smart Wuxi Website
Smart Wuxi is a government information website about the smart city development of Wuxi, China. Simple linear illustrations show the main components of a smart city. Technological blue and sustainable green are used to express a sense of technology and of the future. The homepage presents the latest news, and each panel links to a topic section. The Local Sharing and Smart City Applications sections provide regional information in real time. A voting panel allows citizens to share opinions with the local government. The site is responsive and scales to browser size and device type.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Smart Wuxi Website is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Smart Wuxi Website is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Smart Wuxi Website is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The purpose of website design: With the city is under rapid growth of the economy and digital recently, the city of Wuxi becomes increasingly urbanized and modernized, to enter a new era which labeled smart’. Based on current condition, the overall website design reflects the image of smart Wuxi with modern and rich visual effects, as meaning as the purpose of Smart cities improves the quality of the lives of citizens.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- This webpage is designed as a responsive website. It will scale proportionately according to browser size and device types. Website interface design, designed by Photoshop and Illustrator. Homepage animation made by After Effects.
- Tags
- Smart City, Website, UI, UX, Wuxi
- Production Technology
- Web design was made by combining Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe After Effect. Developed mainly in HTML, CSS.
- Design Challenge
- The overall website presents a modern and user-friendly image of Wuxi. ‘Local Sharing' and 'Smart City Applications' sections, delivered regional information and will be updated in real-time. Interaction and Transaction solicited different opinions from citizens. which also facilitates more effective communication between citizens and the local government. It is hoped that the Smart Wuxi website will become the carrier of Wuxi Smart City information, record every step of the development of Wuxi Smart City, and provide a more convenient and intuitive bridge for the communication between citizens and the government.
- Research
- We started with a focus group and work out the website architecture. Then we have several workshops to polish the draft wireframe. We try to bring more flat and simple design language to the website. The settings of the sections of the website allow users to capture effective information in a more user-friendly and convenient.
- Inspiration
- We use simple linear illustrations to depict the important components of the smart city. The corresponding Slogan reflects the trigger points of the smart city’s interaction with users. The intuitive design language expresses to the citizens how the various functions of the smart city are applied to real life. The choice of color also delivers the different visual perception, with technological blue and the sustainable development green, which reflect the sense of the future and the sense of technology of the smart city, at the same time, the visual color matched perfectly balanced. The flat and direct visual language of illustrations helps users of all ages could better understand the role of "smart cities" in the urban system.
- Project Duration
- Sep 2020 – Jan 2021, China.
- Operation Flow
- As a government information website, we try to deliver the latest news to every visitor. The user will see all the latest promo news on the homepage. Each panel will link to different topic sessions. Users also can use a voting panel to vote the any Smart City event and also, the hoster can invite people to different topics to discuss.
- Team Members
- Creative Director: Xiner (Cindy) Zheng, Client Director: Sydney Wu, Project Management Director: Joanna Zhang
- Image Credits
- Image Credit: Studio ZXT
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