LiveJournal is a service for journals and blogs, photo storage, publishing tools, style templates, and online communities for many interests. For a lot of bloggers, LiveJournal may be one of the first platform they've tried or used. Graphic Designer Alexander Livanov was tasked to officially redesign the website but for some reasons, it didn't push through. However, he still completed the project.
Actually I was supposed to redesign it officially at the beginning - for some reasons that didn't happen. But I have decided to complete it anyway. Both mobile and web versions look very complicated and overloaded today. I wanted to make it looks light and clear, content oriented, dismiss all the elements and details which never should be there. Also I was disappointed with a huge and hard to navigate comments hierarchies. I wanted to see it more elegant.
-Alexander Livanov
There was no special source of inspiration. Maybe some trends in User Interface (UI) design we see everyday on Behance. I just wanted to design good user flow and do not ruin it with UI after that. As for an advice for aspiring designers - work hard and use my kit if it meets their goals :)
-Alexander Livanov
About Alexander Livanov
Alexander Livanov is a Moscow based UI designer. In 2007, he graduated as a software engineer but has always have been interested in graphic design. He was born in family of artists and had access to a big library of excellent books about graphic and editorial design. Some time, he even worked in a publishing house. So he guessed that it's a combination of these areas that resulted to things like they are now. See more of his work on Behance.