Financial Services and EdTech Firm
Educating Professionals Through Interactive Play
300-hour, cross-platform HTML5 experience with hybrid CSS/JS animations, asset optimization, and legacy browser support delivered under a fixed bid and tight timeline.
Objective
Teach professionals to make rational financial choices through engaging, browser-based learning.
Challenge
Aggressive timeline with evolving requirements; deliver rich animations with W3C-compliant markup across devices and resolutions, including full IE9 support.
Solution
Hybrid animations (CSS for modern, JS for legacy) via Modernizr; PNG over SVG for lighter assets; Gulp pipeline with Stylus/Nib, jpegtran/pngcrush, gulp-connect and LiveReload; jQuery plugins for touch, drag-drop; weekly demos, reviews, acceptance tests.
Results
MVP delivered in ~1.5 months within 300 hours; smooth performance across major browsers incl. IE9; faster iteration via auto-reload; reduced asset sizes through lossless optimization.
Tech stack
JavaScript, jQuery, Image Optimization Tools, Nib