Richard Vincent

GONYEAU

My Services

Web Design

Front-end website development featuring custom mark-up, graphic design, and javascript functionality. User interface design based on analytics and UX research. Module/Plug-in prototyping.

Content Management

Creation, planning, and oversight of digital property. Preparation and rendering of digital media elements for web publication. Sitemapping, wireframing, and templating.

Strategic Communication

Deployment of web products that satisfy immediate user needs as well as long-term organizational goals. Email blasts, landing pages and advertisements.

I am
Richard Vincent Gonyeau

Artist.  Designer.  Developer.  Producer.

I've worn all these hats at one time or another in my career as a web professional. Currently I am the User Interface Designer for the University of Colorado Denver & Anschutz Medical Campus in Denver, Colorado.

Before coming to CU Denver, I was the Web Producer for the School of Science and School of Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.

I enjoy spending most of my free time at home with my wife and young son. I'm an avid curler and coffee drinker.

I have
The skills

and the experience to take on any web project you have in mind.

Working for a university that serves over 40,000 students and faculty requires me to keep a sharp, well-rounded skill set. I utilize a full palette of cutting-edge web software and standards on a daily basis.

85%

Photoshop

95%

HTML

90%

CSS

70%

Javascript

My Work

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Rensselaer School of Science

Website

SCHOOL WEBSITE

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In order to release the department websites in the Drupal CMS, it was necessary to build the overall School of Science site in the CMS as well. Not only was it mandatory to generate the URL's we wanted, but it helped when establishing taxonomies and data models.

The homepage features the ever popular HTML5 slider, 'Layerslider'. I love the options that Layerslider offers, allowing a web producer unrestrained creative freedom. There is room to highlight all the programs, platforms and partnerships within the School. I also planned to incorporate lab templates for graduate students and faculty.

This main site, as well as the department sites, is built with the ability for administrative assistants with little to no web experience the chance to update the site with ease.

This website went live in Spring '15.

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Rensselaer Homepage

Redesign

WEBSITE

Redesigning the homepage of a university can be a monumental task that involves a lot of people. The original design concept was put together by my colleague, Daria Robbins, in conjunction with the rest of the Web Communications team. It's was an excellent opportunity to collaborate with all the talent within the communications division at RPI.

It's a no-brainer to move from a cluttered, table-based design into a much more open, clean, and responsive presence on the web. These characteristics are standard on the modern web, which is why we worked hastily to go from the 'page to the stage', as I like to say.

Many of the design aspects seen here have been established by the standards I helped to create for Rensselaer. The more sites that adhere to these standards, the more cohesive the Institute's web presence becomes.

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Biological Sciences Department

Website

DEPARTMENT WEBSITE

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My first task as Web Producer for RPI was to redesign the out of date School of Science department websites. I had a suspicion that this would be much more than just a face lift. Once I peeked under the hood, my suspicion was confirmed.

My affinity for the life sciences not withstanding, I really chose to start with Biological Sciences because its size represents a nice average within the School. My approach was to scale up or scale down the build to fit the remaining six departments at the School of Science.

I was given the option to go with straight HTML or to develop within the Drupal CMS that some other groups on campus chose to utilize. The choice was an obvious one. Drupal allows for a much more scalable, sustainable web presence which is ideal for a university setting. This site features automated news feeds from internal and external sources, an automated events feed, as well as faculty data which is pulled from the Institute database. The ability to set user permissions gives administrators within the deparment the ability to update the website themselves. All of these features help prevent the site from becoming as out of date as it was when I arrived.

Together with faculty and staff, I used this department as a template from which all other departments in the school can be built. This website went live in Spring '15.

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CU Denver Location Page

DESIGN EXERCISE

DESIGN EXERCISE

When interviewing for the User Interface Designer position at CU Denver, I was tasked with redesigning an out of date 'location' webpage. The purpose of the page is to inform the target audience (prospective students, parents, patients, etc.) about the area. The content already existed, so this was an easy facelift.

I wanted to make it fun and exciting, so I included some scripty animations, a parallax scroll and large, colorful images. The color palette blends nicely with the CU Denver's black and gold theme. I also spruced up the footer to reflect a clean modern feel.

This was a fun, two-day project that helped secure my position as Visual/UI designer at the university.

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Anschutz Medical Campus

Website Redesign

REDESIGN

One of my first jobs after being hired as the UI Designer at CU Denver was to redesign the homepage and sub level pages of the Anschutz Medical Campus website. I was working remotely from New York at the time, so it was a little difficult to be fully 'plugged in' to the project in terms of pre-existing styles, conventions, etc. But since a quick turnaround was necessary, I had to rely on my experience to make sure this went out the door correctly and on time.

The nicest part of this project was that my colleague Kristin had already done the analytical research as well as constructed a wireframe from which I could create the design. I took what I could from the CU Anschutz style guide and tweaked the rest to keep things clean and modern.

There were a few restrictions within the Sharepoint CMS and framework, but overall I was pleased with the result. Most importantly, the client was pleased.

Colorado School of Public Health

Website Redesign

WEBSITE REDESIGN

The Colorado School of Public Health has rebranded their image. Since the school is actually facilitated by 3 separate universities, they didn't want to use any colors/themes associated with any one school. The result is a neutral gray palette that, although initially challenging for a designer, really allows for some colorful photography to shine through.

This project was part of an overhaul of their entire online presence and went live in February 2016.

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Daily Gazette Mobile Website

Daily Gazette

Mobile Website

MOBILE WEBSITE

It was a fun challenge to work within the django framework. The top sliding menu dynamically features the lead photo from each category, and will remain fixed to the top of the screen when the user scrolls down the page. The design includes 7 advertising spots on the homepage, as well as in-story ads.

This was the first major project given to me as Web Administrator for the Daily Gazette. Management opted for 'adaptive' rather than 'responsive' design.

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Classified Redesign

CLASSIFIED REDESIGN

The Gazette hired an outside consultant to help liven up the sagging newspaper classified business. A design contest was held to rebrand the 'Big 3' - Jobs, Auto, Homes. Gazette employees as well as outside designers competed for the cash prize. Needless to say, the drinks were on me by contest end. Hooray!

Daily Gazette

Website

WEBSITE

I know many programmers who created their own content management system before realizing that an established open-source solution is much more efficient and sustainable. In that same light, before the first public release of Twitter Bootstrap, I set out to create my own responsive framework to meet front-end requirements. This particular example was my first attempt.

This website dynamically pulls content from the Daily Gazette's rogue CMS and displays it using my responsive build. It was a little tricky to get things going, but it reacts very nicely to multiple user platforms.

I was hired by Rensselaer before this design ever went live. Since it's creation, I've used the much more reliable Twitter Bootstrap framework when building static html web solutions.

Contact Me

I am available for freelance and consultation.
I can't wait for the next exciting project!
Could it be yours?