Recent Projects
Discount VSA Warehouse
Identity Design
Resume
American City
Business Journals
October 2012 – Present
UX Designer in New York, NY
Freelance / Consultant
July 2011 – Present
Product Designer in New York, NY
An ambitious designer determined to reconnect with his craft.
- Readied a charitable, social e-commerce startup for its public launch by designing and coding the front-end for its marketing and product sites
- Guided a 163 year-old newspaper company to provide a more delightful user experience by streamlining its information architecture as they prepared to move their website to the Ellington CMS
- Carefully realigned the website of a department at Stanford University to offer more obvious navigation and more comfortable reading for its visitors
TheLadders
September 2010 – July 2011
Information Architect in New York, NY
A hybrid UX/visual designer and developer narrowing his focus to the discipline of User Experience Design.
- Conducted user interviews and interpreted findings for sharing throughout the company
- Designed conversion funnels to optimize for both customer satisfaction and achievement of business goals
- Prototyped design solutions to integrate efficiently into an agile development workflow
Arc90
June 2010 – September 2010
Visual Designer (Contract) in New York, NY
A budding designer applying his craft across multiple client applications for the web and iPhone.
- Created effortless interaction flows and crisp UI elements for McGraw Hill’s newest iPhone app
Scripps Interactive
Newspapers Group
May 2007 – June 2010
May 2006 – May 2007
Internship
User Experience Specialist in Knoxville, TN
A strong-willed activist refusing to let outdated and closed-minded newspaper methods of operation overrule improvements to user experience.
- Streamlined Scripps’ 20 separate newspaper websites onto one common platform, enabling future development to move forward with considerable ease and efficiency
- Integrated new technologies into the UX team’s workflow, optimizing its output capabilities
- Pinpointed user experience struggles through participation in multiple live usability tests and quickly built workable solutions to solve documented problems
Highlights from my old blog
- Better iPhone settings access
- Introducing CSS Prism, a CSS color inspector
- Introducing Django JumpToAdmin
- Design decisions and highlights of Scripps’ newest local news site
- Caution: Wide Load
- Quit distracting your users
- The basics of creating a tumblelog with Django
- The basics of creating a tumblelog with Django (part 2)
- Inspiration from a night at the ballpark
- Adopting some perspective