Work at America Online
General Overview (2000)
I designed the user interface and user experience for a variety of AOL community and search products, and created concepts and user interfaces for key new initiatives. My deliverables included wireframes, functional and experience flows, design requirement documents, conceptual designs, storyboards, presentations, a standards guide, and experience requirement documents. I worked closely with partners, internal and external developers, product and project managers, and the product design team to produce highly successful products. I took proactive roles in resolving issues or concerns, identifying future paths for innovation, and managing risk.
The terms of my contract forbid me from displaying my work for AOL until June 2005.
Work at Engenia Software
1.X Software Revision (2000)
My first project at Engenia Software was to significantly renovate the original user interface for the collaborative project software to improve usability
Search Functionality Improved (2001)
The search functionality of the product (as shown by usability analysis) was complex, unintuitive, and difficult to understand. I clarified and simplified the process and significantly improved user reaction to the product.
Engenia Unity 4.X Plug-in Tools for Microsoft Products (2002-3)
Engenia Unity 4.X (the current version) adds functionality to Microsoft Visio and Project to build processes and manage projects born from those processes and interacting with our project engines and agents.
Engenia Unity 4.X Role Based Console Elements (2002-3)
Although another member of design team was responsible for the over-all look and feel of the product, I have since revised some elements or added new ones wholesale.
Holiday Party Invitations and Markers (2003)
These pieces of party ephemera inspired excitement (and a certain braggadocio) among the company's employees.
Work at Ernst and Young, LLP
Connected[Health].net (1996-7)
I was a designer on this ambitious semi-internal project to create reconfigurable industry-centric desktop software that allowed users to have relevant information pushed to them, search databases, collaborate, and buy and sell materials and supplies
Mercedes Netstar Project Management Tool (1997)
I designed a graphical front-end for a Notes Gateway.
IE4 Presentation and DHTML eCommerce Demo (1998)
I designed the presentation slides (in DHTML) for two coworkers to deliver at a 1998 Microsoft developer's conference.
Nationsbank GSA 2.0 prototype (1998)
I was a designer on the web-based administrative tool that would allow government workers and managers to log on and manage smart card usage.
Standard and Poor's RatingsDirect (1998-9)
I defined the core UI standards and layouts for this web-based subscription service that put information previously found only in bound books onto the web in a searchable, filterable interface, and built the user interfaces for the Structured Finance portions of the site. During this period, I also envisioned, designed, and saw into fruition a notes-based Change Control Tool, and did informational design work for the informational RatingsDirect website
Whirlpool Dealers Extranet (1999)
As part of the design partnership on this project, I was responsible for prototyping, implementing my partner's design, coordinating with the developers, solving implementation issues, and ensuring design consistancy.
Coca-Cola Fountain Extranet (1999)
I led the prototype team (also responsible for gathering requirments), designed the site structure, and coordinated with an external design group to build a prototyped extranet eCommerce site for the the Fountain sales division.
Ernst and Young LLP and Friends (1999-2000)
Supporting collateral for internal effort to engage Ernst and Young employees in supporting, participating in, or volunteering for a series of fundraising AIDS bike rides
Mt. Sinai / NYU Health (2000)
I led small UI team to redesign their website and to incorporate functionality that would improve their outreach in the community, help people find doctors, and get the information they needed.
Other Projects
North American Networks Logo (1999-2002)
In 1999, the founder and president of my hosting company contacted me about designing a new logo for his company.
Website Designs for Individuals (1998, 2002)
Several of my acquaintances have asked me to design websites for them. These are some examples.
Personal Projects
Digital Alphabets (1996-2002)
A series of critically-acclaimed digital alphabet books that use typefaces as the basis of art
Daily Decision (design c. 2001)
This is a very popular novelty website that has been redesigned around the same color set and image 3 times since 1997.
Ancient World Web (design c. 2002)
In 2002, I redesigned the Ancient World Web to be a standards-compliant, "purely designed" (HTML and CSS - with no HTML layout hacks) website.
Personal Website (designs 1994 - present day)
My personal website has undergone at least a half-dozen significant redesigns since I first placed a website on-line in the spring of 1994. These are some of the design highlights from that period.
Gallery of Rejected Design
In 1999 and 2000, when most of the work I did for E&Y was still covered by the non-disclosure agreement I signed, I put together the Gallery of Rejected Design to showcase some of my best work that - for one reason or another - never was implemented.