The Silverchair Platform
Silverchair's mission is to integrate and deliver scholarly content of all kinds to students, researchers, and scientists across the globe. Their operations consist of creating large, content-serving websites for journals, societies, and publishers with ease of use and discoverability in mind. Their client-side toolset consisted of SiteMaster, an aging backend interface for site customization, and Zipline, a tool to upload content packages. With content types spanning articles, books, video, and custom formats numbering in the thousands (or more) per site, a robust suite of tools was paramount for client satisfaction and effectiveness. Our team was tasked with expanding Silverchair's client-side toolset, empowering them to control more of their site settings and content. The overarching goal aligned with our organization's shift in marketplace offering at the time; creating a unified platform that balances customization with cost efficiency in new site builds. Below is a brief overview of the end-to-end Product Design of the Silverchair Platform starting with backend tools and front-end results. Highlights Created design system for all Silverchair's backend tools moving forward.Redesigned complex content loading & spec-checking products to upload 1000's of pieces of content en-masse.Designed two new products that opened up Silverchair's users to scale their websites at will.Created & maintained a design system for the front-end webpages' default output of above tools.
