Over the course of nearly 5 years at JetBlue Airways, I saw the website through three
facelifts. Given that the entire production staff consisted of one person, myself,
for the first two and a half years, it was difficult to launch a full blown redesign.
We did embark on a redesign exercise at one point enlisting the help of Sapient, but
the Marketing executives that had approved the designs left the company and new
directives and ad designs sought to change the visual direction. Thus, the project
was put on hold and subsequently cancelled.
Below are screenshots of what the site was, what it became and where it was headed
until a formal redesign. I had enlisted the help of an interaction design agency, HUGE Inc.
to assist in the redesign of jetblue.com. The Sapient redesign failed because the information
architecture of the site had never been fully realized while the overall visual design
had already been approved.