This section represents some of the work I’ve done in user experience and interaction design. The funny thing is, before Disney found my resumé online, and then called me up one day and told me they had an opening for a user experience designer about 5 years ago (which btw I never got the job…), I had never considered myself one. Yes, I can do user experience, but not from years in college studying HCI (human computer interaction), or Psych, or something else. When I went to school, there weren’t any degrees in UX or HCI, or aimed at how people work with computers.
For me it was something that I just knew, and could do pretty well at. As I sat at HP next to guys who had their Masters and phd’s, I was considered one of them and my input and solutions on complex problems were all welcomed and respected. All I studied in college was film, industrial design, photography, and architecture. Yet somehow I understand good user experience and interaction design.
I do have a lot more than I can show, but not online due to some things not being launched, or just general non-disclosure stuff. If you want to see more, then contact me and we’ll talk.
Hewlett-Packard
This is a small sample of the work I did while at HP on their web-enabled Touchsmart printers, which was a combination of user experience design, interaction design, as well as visual design.
Howcast print app
The first is one I’m pretty proud of, because it not only allows a user to print out “How To’s”, but each print is embedded with a MS Tag, which allows anyone with a smartphone and the MS Tag app to watch the corresponding video on their phone, providing a neat Augmented Reality experience.
The Howcast Wireframes
Mappy print app
Mappy is the European equivalent of MapQuest. Trying to get ALL the features of the web version to work on a 2.5 inch touchscreen, and then give the users a nicer printout than what they were used to when using Mappy on their computers was the main goal, and a difficult problem to solve. These is are a few pages of 22 to map out (sorry), the functionality of such a complex app.
The first page of many...
One of the detail pages for the developers.
While one of my main tasks at HP was to create wireframes and flows, I also had to create brief user experience pitches for potential partners, as well as do the visual design work for interfaces.
This one is for a cartoon penguin named Pororo.
Ashford University
Currently I’ve been doing a lot of work at Bridgepoint Education for the Ashford University website, which just launched. The site contains 463 pages, and we had 8 stakeholders who wanted their content to be presented the best way possible. For the wireframes, I went through roughly 5 iterations to the final version. I also created a user experience design brief, held the stakeholder interviews, and created a competitive landscape and deep-dive analysis for the site. You can check it out here: http://www.ashford.edu.
And some of the wireframes:
Ashford News page
Learning Innovations
