For 18+ years, I found a variety of ways to foster the design community but this was the first time I was able to commit fully to the education of our future designers. The outputs are less tangible and the traditional design deliverables flew out the door but the rewards were satisfying in a very different way.
Industry: Education
Role: Director of Design Education, Senior Manager of Design Curriculum
Worked with Disney and Disney Junior to redesign and optimized their sites for tablet and mobile viewing. The design needed to be meticulously created into a template to be used for all Disney brands.
Platform: Mobile, Tablet
Role: Art Director, Design
Pearson's Realize and Realize Reader digital educational product struggled with low usability metrics; new UX and product concepts of the student and teacher user experience were introduced.
Industry: EdTech
Role: Director of UX
As the forerunner for the auto repair and auto community, AutoMD set itself apart by developing one of the first automotive apps that diagnosed, gave quotes, found shops in the area, and provided general self help guides for DIY projects. The foundation started with prototype wireframes and ended with a fully launched iOS and Android app as well as a Silver W3 Award.
Platform: Mobile
Role: Lead User Experience Designer, UI Designer
HTC is all grown up. The mobile and desktop sites were redesigned to match it's adulthood. Subtle gradations and light use of the HTC green sets this major mobile company from it's competitors.
Platform: Mobile, Desktop
Role: Art Director, Design
Art directed and addresses UX and visual design for the not yet released Disney version of iTunes, Disney Studio All Access. Worked closely with developers to implement new features and establish consistency across desktop, mobile, tablet and 10 foot. Even some branding exploration was completed when renaming naming was crossed.
Platform:Mobile, Tablet, Desktop, Print
Role: Director of UX, Senior Product Designer
The evolution of a brand can be a slow one but in just two years, I guided the transformation from the stereotypical patriotic colors of red, white and blue to a calm yet energetic revitalization to finally a full rebrand of warmer more welcoming purples and oranges.
Platform: Desktop, Mobile, Tablet, Print
Role: Art Director, Senior Product Designer
Playing no games here. Designs for Sony's Playstation Store were focused primarily on usability and allowing for easy exploration with the Playstation controller. Intended to be clean and easy to scan (thus easier to buy), designs leaned heavily on breaking out of the traditional grid.
Platform: 10 foot
Role: Art Direction, Visual Design, Interaction Design
Utility was the first priority, clarity was the second. For a tool used for transferring massive amounts of assets, the Disney Downloader had to be easy to use and versatile.
Platform: Desktop
Role: Art Director, UX/UI Design
7 issues makes a domestic partnership, right? Linkin Park's printed/digital newsletter is always a highlight to the year. It's a mix of extracting the latest existing branding and sprinkling it with new designs.
Role: Design
In 1998, when the film first came out, Nightmare Before Christmas did not have a site. On the 20th anniversary, with a blu-ray release, a site was finally created in Flash.
Role: Art Direction, Design, Flash Animation
The booklet for Panik House's Pinky Violence Collection was a fun one to design. With only photos to work with, the themes of sex, fury and girl power were visually embedded into the typography and layout. And yes, there was lots of pink.
One of the leading silicon photonics companies needed a site to reflect its successes and growth. Keeping it lively while professional makes Aurrion.com visually impressive and practical.
Role: Art Direction, UX/UI Design, Development
Crackle is Sony's online movie streaming site. Translating it to iPad and mobile phones was the obvious next step.
Platform: Mobile, Tablet
Role: Art Director, Design
Art Direction and partial design of the site for the television show "Terriers" for FXNetworks.com.
Role: Art Direction, Design
Doing good deeds is everyone's responsibility. Liberty Mutual started a viral video campaign to push that message into the public space. These are designs for the official site that would host videos, user comments and stories from all over the world.
Role: Art Direction, Design
Homepage design for the official website for the Grateful Dead band. Design variant where the background of the site changes depending on the time of day.
Role: Design
A motion house's portfolio site designed based on only the existing logo of the company.
Role: Design
Designs for Bossa Nova drinks were a blast to do. The goals were to provide plenty of colorful visuals while keeping it elegant.
Role: Design
Hoteki provides the framework for any company to start their own bidding website. Along with branding Hoteki, design explorations were created along with conceptualizing user interfaces for the platform.
