We were hired by Dan Colman to recode the header for the WordPress blog, Open Culture.

“Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has given us great amounts of intelligent audio and video. It’s all free. It’s all enriching. But it’s also scattered across the web, and not easy to find. [Their] whole mission is to centralize this content, curate it, and give you access to this high quality content whenever and wherever you want it. Free audio books, free university courses, free movies, free language lessons and other enriching content — it’s all here.”

The new header makes better use of visual space as well as giving easier access to important links on the top of every page. Even though changes may seem small, improved usability and better use of screen real estate can go a long way.

Old Header:

New Header:

The design and original development for the theme were created by Rolling Orange.

Check out the new design and have a look at Open Culture.