Smart Wuxi Website by ZXT Studio - Xiner Zheng Receives the A' Design Award in Website and Web Design

ZXT Studio - Xiner Zheng recognized for website and web design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the A' Design Award in the Website and Web Design category for Smart Wuxi Website by ZXT Studio - Xiner Zheng, designed for Studio ZXT. The result belongs to the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

About the A' Design Award

The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.

More 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.

About ZXT Studio - Xiner Zheng

Xiner joined the Mucho San Francisco team in 2018. At Mucho, she works closely with clients including Apple, Paradigm, University of California, and Deem. ‍ She exemplifies a diverse array of skills from web, print, and illustration in fields ranging from fashion to tech gadgets. While it used to be common to specialize in merely a single trade, rapidly-changing technologies has proven it crucial for a designer to possess a wide assortment of technical know-how to stay current.

Award Record

With this recognition, ZXT Studio - Xiner Zheng is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.

About the A' Website and Web Design Awards

The A' Web Design Award is an international web design competition recognizing good web designs by leading web designers, coders and developers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to web designers, user interface designers, user experience designers and graphic designers from all countries. Entries typically include web design, portfolios, e-commerce sites, blogs, news websites and social media platforms. Awarded web designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/web

About A' Design Award & Competition

A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com

Press Resources

Winner Page: https://designers.org/122407
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/122407
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!122407
Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/287010

Media Contact

Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Smart Wuxi Website
Function: Website
Category: Website and Web Design
Discipline: Communication Design
Industry: Software and Branding & Advertising
Colors: Dark Slate Blue, Sea Green, Steel Blue, Dark Cyan and Dark Slate Gray
Images: 5
Client: Studio ZXT

The Recognition

Laureate: ZXT Studio - Xiner Zheng
Country: United States of America
Recognition: A' Design Award
Edition: 2020 - 2021
Design ID: #122407

Credits

Team: Xiner (Cindy) Zheng, Client Director: Sydney Wu, Project Management Director: Joanna Zhang
Image Credits: Image Credit: Studio ZXT

Design Details

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.
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.
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.
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.
Realization and Technology: Web design was made by combining Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe After Effect. Developed mainly in HTML, CSS.
Operation and Interaction: 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.
Project Duration and Location: Sep 2020 – Jan 2021, China.
Specifications: 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.
Keywords: Smart City, Website, UI, UX, Wuxi