Who?
Olivia "O" Gresham
Clientele
- Bishop Timothy J. Clarke
- Christal Entertainment Communications
- Climate of Change
- Cornelius McGrady II
- First Church of God
- Flash 80 Sportz
- In The TechKnow
- Playpon
- Theodore Ceasar
- The TRI Federation
- Trevelino Keller
- Vanguard Leadership Group
- Vision Realty
What?
Interactive Solutions
I provide interactive solutions for my clients. Services that go beyond creating a website, logo, and other various marketing materials.
I consider:
- +Who you are
- + Where you are
- +Where you would like to go
- +Who your end users are
- +Your needs and capabilities
- +How the product will be used
- +The lifespan of the product
- +The steps after development
Excellence
While some say its not how you start its how you finish. Regardless if you are coming to me with a new project or a make-over project.
I believe:
"Design is excellence.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise,
Risking more than others think is safe,
Dreaming more than others think is practical,
And expecting more than others think is possible.
It is the commitment to high quality performance,
that produces outstanding results of lasting value.
Excellence is believing in continuous improvement
and never being satisfied with anything being less than it can be.
It is quality as a way of life."
When?
Hours
- Available Monday through Friday
- 8:00am till 6:00pm EST
- Emails sent over the weekend are replied to promptly Monday morning unless it's an emergency (ie: you deleting half your website)
Timeline
- 2000
- 2001
- 2002
- 2003
- 2004
- 2005
- 2006
- 2007
- 2008
- 2009
- 2010
- 2011
- 2012
2000
- Started attending Olentangy High School
2001
- Summer Assistance at The Ohio F.A.I.R. Plan, reorganized clientele database
- Shadowed Tina Campana, Graphic Designer for Ohio Continual Legal Education
2002
- Summer Assistance at The Ohio F.A.I.R. Plan, database entry
2003
- Summer Assistance at The Ohio F.A.I.R. Plan, developed an designed their program help system with Dreamweaver in HTML
- DECA District and State Conferences
- Marketing Class
- 3D Computer Graphic Animation Classes
- Designed and coded High School Service Club website in HTML and CSS with Dreamweaver and Fireworks
- Designed High School Marching Band 2003-04 Schedule T-Shirts using CorelDraw
- Worked with Marketing class to design Senior Football Jersey's to be sold in School Store
2004
- Summer Assistance at The Ohio F.A.I.R. Plan, database entry and program testing
- Designed and coded church's youth group webpage in HTML and CSS with Dreamweaver and Fireworks
- Graduated from Olentangy High School, May 2004
- Started attending The Savannah College of Art and Design, Fall 2004
2005
- Declared a double major of Industrial Design and Visual Effects
2006
- Designed and built backdrop for 5Q Avenue Concert
2007
- Designed SCAD Charrette webpage in Flash
- Built stage road for annual church spring production
2008
- First OGiD logo was created by Santos Vega
- Dropped Visual Effects as major Declared Interaction Design as a Minor, Spring 2008
2009
- Created first logo for Bombshell Intimates
- Designed first mobile application, Jaunt for the iPhone
- Graduated from The Savannah College of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts
2010
- January- Officially launched OGiD, located in Atlanta, GA
- January - First project was a logo for Christal Entertainment Communications
- February - First contract gig with Trevelino Keller
- March - Launched first version of ogidesigns.net
- June - Relocated to Columbus, OH
- August - OGiD logo redesign
- August - First interational client, The TRI Federation, located in Shanghai, China
- August - used Wordpress for the first time for the TRI Federation site
- September - Launched first website for First Church of God using PHP for the first time
- December - Launched second version of ogidesigns.net, coding with JQuery for the first time
2011
- March - First contract position with Franklin University
2012
- February - Launched third version of ogidesigns.net
Where?
Everywhere
Although I am currently located in Columbus, Ohio, I love to travel whether you are five minutes away from me or five hours and more I would love to work with you.
I have serviced clients in the following cities:
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Dayton, Ohio
- Columbus, Ohio
- Shanghai, China
Why?
Because...
The economic state of the United States at the moment of my graduation only gave me slim to none opprotunites to start working in my field as a Information Architect. Between companies cutting their internship programs and asking for candidates with 3-5 years of experience I launched my company to gain that experience on my own.
I have come to find that many of my clients are coming to me after working with other designers and developers with a bad taste in their mouth. My goal is turn your prespective of "The Designer" around.
- I am dedicated to providing small businesses with the excellence that they deserve regardless of their size.
- To match and become apart of the excellence that big or small companies and individuals already have.
- To bring that vision of yours to reality.
I desire to educate others and help them find the information they need when they need it.
How?
Center your design around the users
I consider the desires of the stakeholder, and their clients, naturally. Yet the focus of all my designs is focused on the users of my products first and most of the time, stakeholders and their clients tend to be in that group of individuals. Each designer/developer has their own process. Here is are my elements of User-Experience Design:
It is an iteratiave process and the size of these elements change from project to project. Some may not even be present depending on the task at hand.
