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For this project, my team worked with designers at the university to create a look and feel that would reflect the University’s new branding guidelines. I took their flat comps and created a fully custom Joomla template. I interviewed our constituent groups and greatly improved both the content and organization of the site. We implemented new UX features, including content sliders, predictive search boxes, and many fully custom components and modules to make the interface more responsive. My team created a custom administration tool which allowed content editors to have granular control over front page components, and share content between the main site and our news sites. We also developed a mobile version of the new site, extending an existing Joomla component with Jquery for improved user experience.

The investigative journalists at the Connecticut Health I-Team came to me for a custom Constant Contact newsletter template to promote their new site and communicate with readers. I based the design on the front page of their site at c-hit.org, allowing them to push featured stories and generate site traffic.

The C-HIT website is available at: http://www.c-hit.org

This major east coast University graduate school faced the challenge of providing both an easily searchable, accurate personnel directory on the web, and providing simple web pages for faculty and staff. Without a robust solution available to us at the enterprise level, my team created this directory application in .Net. It pulls data from multiple databases across the university, and features an administration panel where users can log in with their university credentials and post their CV and publications, and correct pre-populated contact information. We added a name search link to PubMed, which had the added benefit of greatly increasing the Google rank of our site as a whole. Photos are pulled from Gallery, our open source digital asset management system. Course information is pulled from another custom .Net application developed in-house, updated constantly.

For this project, my team was tasked to redesign the internal communications website for students at a major east coast University graduate school. Like our other sites, we utilized Joomla, creating a totally custom template and developing many custom components in-house. The site features an custom administrative interface where various editors can publish new content, as well as pull existing content from the school’s other sites. The Practice and Career Opportunities listings, of key interest to students, are populated automatically from our in-house opportunities database, as are upcoming events. In addition to serving as project lead, I performed the human factors work on the site, as well as designing and coding the template.

Several years back, Providence-based scooter shop and coffee house Javaspeed decided to start bottling their own line of sodas, and they asked me to come up with the labels. They already had a truly fantastic logo, so that was a start. I based the labels on oil and lubricant packaging, a well-known quantity to any owner of a two-stroke vehicle. We had a lot of fun coming up with the flavor names and taglines…my favorite remains “Two Stroke Lemonade Self-Mix: Premix alcohol for off road use”.

I am currently working on a full redesign, custom Joomla template and site implementation for my friends at Pittsburgh Quarterly Magazine. Meantime, though, I’ve also been asked to work on some cool illustrations that have appeared in the magazine. These are two examples of a series of “hedcuts” I created featuring notable Pittsburghers, in the style of a certain famous financial newspaper. These were really fun, and I think more effective (and consistent) than your typical corporate headshot.

The school decided to create an internal news website, to carry news and information to faculty and staff and encourage better communications among internal audiences. Since its initial launch in 2007, site has grown into a daily news website, with multimedia, a robust calendar, a digital document repository, daily email summaries, a strong social media presence, and more. A student version of site was launched in 2009. The sites have enjoyed widespread acceptance at the School and have improved both internal and external communications, with both the University and the media picking up stories originating on the site.

View the site: http://sph.bu.edu/insider