Making the simple complicated is commonplace;Charles Mingus
making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
With members in over 100 countries, a clean, elegant, minimalist, fluid (740px to 1080px) design incorporating the WCC’s new identity guide ensures the site is inviting to the WCC’s diverse international audience. Other key aspects of the redesign involved revising navigation elements so they appeared consistently across the site and creating a more intuitive hierarchy for page sections and headings to make the content faster to browse and easier to read.
These assets are a small sample from over 300 that I created for the Marketing/Branding department at Virgin Mobile USA. In addition to design work I also helped convert psd’s into XHTML/CSS for the 2009 redesign, contributed browser bug fixes for ie6 and safari, and developed dependable table-based HTML email templates distributed to over 5 million recipients.
Building on their already existant social media networks, Vineyard Morris Plains needed an exciting yet easy-to-manage interface to collect their various social network streams while also providing easy access to important organization level information. In addition to design and front-end coding I also developed a slideshow management plugin that makes it a cinch to update homepage features.
The most pressing issue for NAPS was bringing design, architecture, and copy consistency to their site content, newsletters, and 3rd-party applications. NAPS features two custom plugins I created: 1) provides editing and toggling of the callout boxes on the homepage and 2) offers global editing of officer’s names and contact info to streamline frequently changing information across the site. The submission form automatically populates to a WordPress post set to draft mode (and notifies the administrator via email) so newly submitted items can be posted with just a single click.
This tool provides an at-a-glance sortable system for managing client requests and file assets. It creates monthly summaries of billable hours for both users and clients, and sends tracking notices via email and XML. It integrates with WordPress for user management and authentication.
At Duke Law I was fortunate to be involved in the 2007 redesign team responsible for information architecture, identity rebranding, usability improvements, content migration, and front-end coding. I was specifically tasked with revising the consultant-delivered XHTML/CSS to meet Duke Law’s stricter requirements for semantics, usability, accessibility, and SEO. Also featured is a user friendly solution to aid navigation of the large volume of faculty scholarship.