Welcome to Micek Design, the personal portfolio and blog of Chris Micek. I am young freelance web and graphic designer based in Chicago, but working worldwide.

I like manhattans (the drink), star wars (the movie) and Apple (the company).

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The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) updates their website!

12/16/08 Blog

The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) has updated their website for the first time in 5 years and I think it looks amazing! It could just be because the old website was so horrible, but I think this is a HUGE improvement.

I love how they integrated Google’s trip planner, I’ve been using that for a couple weeks now and found it much easier to use than the original CTA trip planner. I like the quicklink icons on the right side and think that the images are well thought out. The only icon that’s a little weird is the icon for “Fare Info”

I think my only issue with the redesign is the use of drop-down menus for the main navigation. For some reason there is this idea that EVERY page of the website has to be available no matter where you are. Anyways, that’s a minor concern and my opinions on drop-down menus can be saved for another post.

http://www.transitchicago.com/

New Homepage

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Old CTA Site

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