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I propose a series of principles to guide the design of systems that evoke a sense of the outdoors in indoor spaces. This eight-month project was my final capstone project in completing my master’s degree in interaction design.
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A small team of design students banded together in secrecy to create a series of personalized hardcover books that share how much our HCI/d cohort appreciates our professors.
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As an experience design intern at Adaptive Path I worked with the smart.fm team, engaging in extensive concept generation and ideation to inform the design direction of a new iPhone app.
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While working as an experience design intern at Adaptive Path, I dared to rewrite some of Douglas Bowman’s own code and implemented a newly designed home page.
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I took the wireframes and requirements for a proposed web form, and built an interactive high-fidelity XHTML/CSS/Javascript prototype for a fictional recipe application.
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We propose a residential electricity monitoring and feedback system for the iPhone that allows users to track their home energy usage, and encourages them to reduce consumption. We presented this project at CHI 2009 and placed fourth overall in the Student Design Competition.
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In advancing to the second round of the 2009 CHI Student Design Competition, we designed and printed a poster describing our concept for a home electricity monitoring system.
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The Light Sandbox allows people to use mirrors and prisms to manipulate light, projecting their creations onto a shared light column. We created experience prototypes to inform our design for this conceptual museum exhibit.
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Inspired by the turn-of-the-century American railway lodges of the Glacier National Park region, I designed a specimen book for the Akzidenz-Grotesk type family.
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With this conceptual iPhone application, we aim to help users make good, healthy eating choices when they are at their most vulnerable, and when they are most likely to give into temptation: when they are eating out.
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With the help of a local developer we rebuilt the Big Winds commerce engine in Ruby on Rails, to the tune of improved performance, easier maintenance, faster development, smarter product data, and a pixel-perfect grid design.
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As part of a project to familiarize ourselves with traditional letterpress machinery, we printed a book of typography clichés in the type shop at Indiana University.
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We explored figure/ground relationships by combining two letterforms into a single visual unit. This project helped fine-tune my appreciation for the variety of subtle differences found in typefaces.
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We propose a cruise ship that uniquely caters to the people who typically go on cruises; namely, those who have faded Harley Davidson t-shirts, wear fanny packs, and have a favorite monster truck driver.
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In an effort to uncover potential issues with ease of learning, we conducted a formal usability evaluation of the Many Eyes data visualization website, and compiled our findings in a final report.
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Lost Mountain Clayworks is the eclectic pottery studio of Mark Heimann. I designed and launched the new Lost Mountain website, creating a rugged look and bringing online shopping to his sturdy line of pirate stoneware.
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Heavily influenced by Bob Dylan, Tuesdays Robot is a country rock band hailing from Minneapolis. I designed and launched a new website to correspond with the release of their first official album.
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Erratik Productions is a video production company that is influenced strongly by jazz, rock and hip-hop music. I built a website that helps Erratik manage their grassroots marketing efforts.
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We built a web-based iPhone application to help our dear friend Mark Bixby keep an eye on his ticker during SXSW 2008. By choosing to feed him bacon or juice, the crowd had control over Mark’s delicious fate.
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As their resident photographer, I bulked up the Big Winds library with more than 3,500 local photographs that document their unique Columbia Gorge lifestyle.
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Working against a tight deadline, we put together an entry video for Captain Morrigan Quicksilver, firing off his first salvo in his quest to star in Mark Burnett’s Pirate Master reality show.
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Alpine is a small web development company offering content management and web marketing services. I took over their own marketing efforts, writing case studies and email newsletters to help them spread the good word.
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Brainside Out has been my online haven for experimentation since 2001, taking form over the years as a website, weblog, portfolio, and even a freelance design business.
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While I have been blogging for over seven years, Daneomatic has been my personal weblog since 2006.
