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Mithun, an architecture firm in Seattle, needed a complete redesign of their public website with a clean look that highlighted its exquisite portfolio, their experience and news stories important to their organization.
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SXSW.com had been redesigned each year, but as the conference grew, the “cruft” started to build up as more and more features were added. A big picture, “step-back”, was needed for the site.
I did a complete content audit of the existing site, created a site structure document based on that work, and then reorganized the site to better suit the needs of a much larger conference, improving not only way finding but overall content organization.
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Level & Tap is a site dedicated to photography prints taken by me. It’s a small set of work I’ve done over the past few years offered as high quality prints. The site pulls photos directly from Flickr, and is designed to highlight and sell my work.
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Open Technology Solutions, a technology credit union service organization, needed a design that was not only clear, beautiful and functional, but one that could be skinned to work for four different credit unions. The design you see here was for First Tech Credit Union, one of the four.
The design was a challenging one, not only because of the multiple stake holders, but because it had to work with another technology vendor’s solution as well.
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97 Bottles is a free service that lets you add, review, and learn new stuff about thousands of types of beers. The site is geared toward the casual beer enthusiast so it needed to not only be simple and straight forward with it’s interactions, but it also needed to be warm and inviting visually as well.
The result, a simple Cheers like bar experience that’s as easy to use as it is welcoming.
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Crane Aerospace & Electronics needed a way to to differentiate their offerings from their competitors and to pull away from the larger Crane Co. website. The biggest challenge was to clearly articulate their various product offerings to highly technical people who had a different understanding of “easy to use”.
When doing the information architecture for the site, it was important to make sure the product listings were presented so that both a casual layman and a highly technical individual could understand and efficiently find what they needed.
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Matasano Security had an unreleased version of Clockwork that was heavily feature-driven. The primary goals were to make the application easier to use and more visually consistent. By shifting the focus from the features themselves to the actual tasks users were performing, a clear navigation structure emerged. From there a clean visual style was applied to appeal to the engineers that would be using the site.
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MagCloud is a site dedicated to helping you publish your own magazines. In a consulting role, I helped HP with interaction design work on their magazine creation pages and provided general advice for the overall information architecture of the site.
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TickerHound is a site dedicated to educating and empowering individual investors. With that goal in mind, I created the site structure and information architecture of the site.
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Whitespace is a place where freelancers, creative people, and technical professionals can come together. And work. Because talking to yourself all day sucks.
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The biggest information architecture challenge for The American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons website was deciding what content needed to be available to the general public, and what content was exclusive to just the members.
One site was created, but a separate members section was devised to allow users to login and see the exclusive content, meeting notes, etc. More publicly facing content was published in order to help increase search engine traffic and to promote AAOMS.
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A side project done with my two good friends Sean Madden and John Vollmer to help facilitate more ad hoc multiplayer gaming experiences using the Nintendo DS. By placing buttons on your bag people could recognize them on the bus, in the subway, or just walking around and then start up a game.
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