Identity & prototype
The workbook records logo exploration, brand guidelines and color choices, asset exports, wireframes, mockups and early staging work.
CASE STUDY / IDRLDESIGN · WEB · HANDOVER
A lab’sdigital home.
An internship project documenting work across the Informality Data Research Lab’s visual identity, website and digital operations.
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01 / THE INTERNSHIPIDENTITY · IMPLEMENTATION · HANDOVER
WEBSITE DESIGN & FRONT-END DEVELOPMENT
From identity work to a working research website.
WORKBOOK PERIOD · 2–20 JULY 2024The internship project report describes work for the Informality Data Research Lab at the Institute for the New Economic Thinking at the Romanian Academy (INCSMPS). The materials cover a custom logo and visual system, a Figma prototype, WordPress website implementation, content organization, performance and launch activities.
A connected design and implementation case
The design process and the website build are presented together here. For a closer look at the identity itself—logo directions, typography, color, digital applications and animation—continue to the site’s dedicated IDRL identity case study.
Site structure & content
Tasks include WordPress structure, navigation and project templates, plus event, news, blog and contact pages.
Quality & performance
The workbook covers responsive checks, image optimization, metadata and alt text, SSL and caching, browser review, accessibility, analytics and backups.
Launch & handover
Final entries describe staging-to-live migration, post-migration review, a user guide and training, documentation and a final SEO audit.
What the report describes
The project report outlines a workflow from Figma wireframes and prototype through WordPress development using HTML5, CSS3 and vanilla JavaScript where needed. The planned site sections included Home, About, Research, Projects and Publications, Events and Workshops, and Contact.
It also describes responsive design, browser and accessibility checks, performance work, scheduled backups and a staging-to-live release process.
What the workbook adds
The 19-day workbook breaks the internship into daily tasks from July 2 to July 20, 2024. It follows design and setup, content features, quality checks, launch preparation and handover.
The workbook is a record of planned or logged activities, while the report explains the project’s goals and approach. Both original formats are available below.
READ THE INTERNSHIP PROJECT · PDF ↓DOWNLOAD THE PROJECT · DOCX ↓
READ THE WORKBOOK · PDF ↓DOWNLOAD THE WORKBOOK · DOCX ↓
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The DOCX and PDF files are paired versions of the two supplied internship documents.