Interview with QuizWitz designer Katia

CatLab Interactive designer Katia designed the QuizWitz community network and created both the website for the game and the studio. We felt it would be interesting to shed a light on her work and interests.

Ken De Pooter, Blogger

September 3, 2015

9 Min Read

INTERVIEW WITH OUR DESIGNER & THE NEW QUIZWITZ WEBSITE

Hi everyone!

With the revlation of our game's new website, we felt it was about time we introduced our designer and her story a bit. This post will be a little interview with questions about her work at CatLab and her interests. You might learn something from her!

THE WEBSITE

Our new website will approach different people in their unique way. We created targeted content for different target profiles. A quiz creator will search in a different way than a party quizzer. Someone who loves to play online and talk to people in the community on the other hand, will look for even different terms. We added screenshots at the end of the post if you're interested, you can also visit them directly:

THE INTERVIEW

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Katia is our in house designer

Katia the designer

First things first. Here's our little interview with the designer of the QuizWitz community and website. Do note though that the party game itself was designed by a freelancer before we even knew Katia.

So, what do you actually do for CatLab?

At Catlab I have a varied job. Last year I created the designs for the Catlab-website, the QuizWitz-website and the QuizWitz community network. I also developed those first two websites. Besides that I’m a helping hand in the front-end development of the game and the community network. Furthermore I like to do some social media management so I started to post the FanFacts-tweets.

What do you study now?

At the moment I study Devine at Howest University College in Kortrijk. Devine is a contraction of design and development. I’m going to my second year in September where I will learn more about Javascript frameworks, 3D Motion Graphics, API’s, …I'm very excited to get started.

How do you keep up with the industry? Are there any blogs or sites you follow regularly?

I follow a few inspiring people on Twitter which helps me to stay up to date. I also like to check inspirational projects on Behance and Codrops. Next to that, I follow some Facebook pages like CSS Design Awards ,creativeBloQ , you the designer and more.

Could you walk us through the steps you follow when you create a website?

First I like to brainstorm about the content of the website and how to visualize it. In this stage I like to browse through Behance, Pinterest, awwwards.com and cssdesignaward.com. When I’ve got some nice ideas I start sketching and creating wireframes. After that, when I’m happy with some sketches I start the digital design in Illustrator. At that moment I also brainstorm about some nice effects while I keep UX in mind. When the digital design is finished and I got some feedback from third parties, I start with the front-end development. In the last stage I add some animations and try to test the website as well as possible on a lot of different devices.

Do you look up to any inspiring people in the field?

There are some people I keep an eye on, but it changes because I’m still learning and exploring my way of working. It also depends on the fields they are active in.

Photography

Branding

Isabella Rodriguez

Webdesign

Illustration/Character design

Can you think of any tips and tricks that might help other designers?

Take your time to get the best possible result. Relax from time to time and start over when you’re not 100% convinced. It’s harder to change your design and code afterwards than to start from a strong, well-considered idea.