gridplane

Gridplane specializes in unifying practical user interaction with engaging design to craft unique and emotional experiences.

http://www.gridplane.com

A bit about the latest version of gridplane from JD himself:

“With this site, you’ll find a lot of features that you’d expect from an html site like back-button support, unique URLS, direct links and non-flash scrolling! The projects are tagged and organized by filters.”

“You might ask ‘why not just make it in HTML’ and my answer would be because innovation is what keeps me going. I’ve ben working with Flash for almost 10 years and I think it is just now beginning to live up to it’s potential.”

“…the Content Management System was built by Instrument. This allows us to tie every bit of content together. So, you can combine contacts with clients with projects with tags, etc to create complex associations. We actually used the CMS to create the data models as well.”

I particularly love the Google visualization piece, and overall simplicity of JD’s work. Its cool, as always, to see the convergence of form and function. and although it seems like there is redundancy (a site in flash and HTML) the site’s singular content can be picked up by search, navigated smoothly in flash, and seen on mobile. its super smart and i’m excited to hear more about the instrument platform that it runs on. take a look at the nike help section to see instrument’s amazing ability to integrate large amounts of content and flash.