Tripod.com
Website Redesign
Launched: January 2013
This is the second redesign of Tripod.com that I've been a part of at my time at Lycos, and the one
we (and our customers) are most happy with.
Everything from registration flow to the front-facing marketing pages and the Control Panel were broken down to
the most basics of information architecture and UI to produce the leanest and most user friendly
website that Tripod has seen in years.
Buzz words:
- Creative Direction
- Website Design
- Responsive Design
- HTML5
- CSS
- jQuery
- Copywriting
Zeeblio Website Builder
Web App Redesign
Launched: December 2012
Version 2.1 of the Zeeblio website builder was just released in Beta mode, and while there is still much more to do, Zeeblio is the only
website builder that gives customers a truly responsive, HTML5 semantic website.
The UI was inspired by what we saw our members trying to do with our tool through varoius feedback channels and focused user testing.
Buzz words:
- Creative Direction
- UI Design
- HTML5
- CSS
- jQuery
- Template Design
- Responsive Templates
Evincible iOS Game
iOS Game Design
Launched: November 2012
My first venture into mobile game design. Working with a small team consisting of a designer (myself) an iOS engineer, a product manager and a QA engineer,
we set out to make a simple, quick to market game to test the iOS waters for Lycos. While the game didn't explode over night, it had a small fanbase that
only gave us praises about it via App Store reviews.
I also built a small information website to house required
App information for Apple, as well as to act as an informational website about the product.
Buzz words:
- UI Design
- Illustration
- Character Design
- Game Design
- Branding
- Website Design
Brush It Off
Website Design
Launched: November 2012
The main focus for the website was to create an easy way to order online, using a caledar/shopping cart hybrid provided by jstreettech.com.
Built for my old boss (the owner of Morgan Graphic Design), it was an interesting experience to design and develop a website for someone who
was once my mentor, who was now coming to me to translate her vision into a modern-looking, partially responsive website.
(jstreettech's asp driven shopping cart was not particularly flexible, being written entirely in tables with minimal classes/IDs to reference.
Buzz words:
- Website Design
- Responsive Design
- e-Commerce
- HTML5
- CSS
- ASP
- Copy Editing
Zeeblio.com
Website Redesign
Launched: June 2012
Zeeblio.com was created to be used as a marketing and informational tool for the Zeeblio Website Builder, at Hosting Con 2012. Built using parallax
scrolling and completly custom illustrations, it was a very fun and interesting website to build and engage with.
Buzz words:
- Creative Direction
- Website Design
- Illustration
- Parallax Scrolling
- HTML5
- CSS
- jQuery
- Copy Editing
- Branding
Mass Digi.org
Website Redesign
Launched: February 2012
Lycos partnered with Mass Digi in their 2012 Game Challenge and in part of our contribution, I designed and did the front-end development for their website that was
then overlayed ontop of a wordpress foundation.
Buzz words:
- Website Design
- Responsive Design
- HTML5
- CSS
HotBot.com
Website Redesign
Launched: January 2012
An exercise in modernizing, responsive design and optimization, the HotBot project has been scaled down quite a bit since it's initial redesign, but many of the
concepts that were used in it's design were translated over to the lycos.com redesign that soon followed.
Buzz words:
- Creative Direction
- Website Design
- Illustration
- Responsive Design
- HTML5
- CSS
- Branding
Lycos.com
Website Redesign
Launched: December 2011
With a mobile first/responsive mandate in mind from the start, I created a pitch for the redesign of our flag-ship website to be usable, all content intact,
mobile and desktop devices alike. The result was one of the more fun and indepth projects I had worked on at the time and the reinvisioning of Lycos paid off
in higher user engagement, better returns on the Yahoo ads, featured on our search results pages, as well as credibility in the design community.
Lycos.com has been featured on various design blogs and websites, and has been mentioned in various An Event Apart talks; most recently by Luke Wroblewski during his
"It's a Write/Read (Mobile) Web and Multi-Device Web Design" workshop at An Event Apart, Seattle, WA - 2013
Buzz words:
- Creative Direction
- Website Design
- UI Design
- Responsive Design
- HTML5
- CSS
- jQuery
- Branding
Weather Zombie iOS
iOS App
Launched: April 2011
Built mostly in off-work-hours, this was my first experience designing for iOS. My role involved general UI/UX design and adapting the zombie characters
and design for portrait iOS viewing.
The App received very positive response, and generated a modest following even with a complete lack of marketing for the app, aside from ridiculous Facebook and Twitter
posts I made, under the guise of one of the Weather Zombies.
Buzz words:
- Creative Direction
- UI Design
- Character Design
- Copywriting
- Branding
Weather Zombie.com
Website Design
Launched: April 2011
A reskinning of the Accuweather feed, with a Zombie twist. Responsive design is used to create a desktop and mobile view for the website.
Built in off-hours, the team for this website consisted of myself as character designer, web designer & front-end developer, a back-end &
JavaScript developer and an illustrator to finalize my zombie concept art.
Buzz words:
- Creative Direction
- Web Design
- Character Design
- Copywriting
- Responsive Design
- HTML5
- CSS
- Branding
Angelfire.com
Website Redesign
Launched: September 2010
A completely reimagined website design geared towards the younger, web-savy market that Angelfire's brand was meant to be geared towards.
Angelfire was redesigned at the advent of CSS3 and HTML5 becoming industry buzz words. The design (mainly the excessive CSS gradients) have not aged
particularly well, but it was a very fun website to create, and upon it's launch, Angelfire received around a 15% uptake in traffic and registration numbers.
Buzz words:
- Creative Direction
- Web Design
- Illustration
- Character Design
- Responsive Design
- HTML5
- CSS
- Branding
BHSonline.org
Website Redesign
Launched: August 2010
I went to Beverly Highschool, and it was an honor and very nostalgic to redesign the website to adhear to industry, semantic standards, while building ontop of a
Wordpress foundation.
Buzz words:
- Web Design
- XHTML
- CSS
- Wordpress
Little Engine Media
Website Design
Launched: May 2010
I was approached by Melissa Roja Lawlor, Executive Producer/Director of Little Engine Media, to build a website for her Startup as well as their featured
product, Small Tales, an educational video series for children.
The websites needed to have a children friendly vibe, though the content was mostly geared towards parents and potential partners.
Buzz words:
- Web Design
- XHTML
- CSS
- Wordpress
Small Tales
Website Design
Launched: May 2010
Part of the Little Engine Media project.
Buzz words:
- Web Design
- XHTML
- CSS
- Wordpress
