The One Story redesign focused on making a popular, well-worn website more usable. Instead of having to click on a parent-level category to see the interior navigation options, I decided to use drop down menus; the site sections were reorganized for maximum impact on the pages most valued by OS as well.
Following One Story’s clean and simple aesthetic, I aimed to mimize the art to sidebar elements and a few images of the One Story issue itself. In a perfect world, my excerpts from different site sections (recent issue on non-homepage, blog excerpts, events,) would be helping to unclutter the sidebar, but a designer can’t get everything she wants…
