/Security_Planner

Websites with a good cause are always a pleasure to work with. This one - a concerted effort by Google's Jigsaw and CitizenLab - aims to help non-expert visitors such as journalists and activists identify their probable security vulnerabilities, and recommends tools to help solve those problems.

This very nicely illustrated and animated website was a lot of fun to create. It did have its share of challenges, however. Those include a development and testing schedule that saw the project put on hold twice (extending the development time to more than two years), as well as a handoff of the source that guaranteed the current version has little resemblance to the original designs. The latter is not necessarily a bad thing: many fixes and improvements have been made to the original project, and I applaud the version that went live.

This was also a lesson on changing scope and increasing UX complexity during development. After this project was over, I made a promise to myself: not to use global CSS anymore (picking CSS modules instead), and no more JavaScript-based React projects (TypeScript being the way to go).