Visual & Interaction Design, Human Computer Interaction
Autonomy iManage, Chicago, IL

September 2005 - current

• Design User Interfaces for web-deployed and client-side applications used across platforms & browsers.
  Interfaces are also adapted for blackberry & iPhone as well as other hand-held devices such as bar code scanners.
  Applications include content management, enterprise management, digital Asset management, Search, and document management
  products used primarily (but not exclusively) within the legal and banking industries.
  
  "Design" includes consulting user studies (or conducting research); building wireframes in response to user issues; creating screen mock-ups;
  turning a screen mock up into the parts of an interface; working with engineers to build a working interface; provide icons for the UI; insuring that
  company and product branding adhere to standards.
  
  
• Conducted a contextual inquiry qualitative research project involving 35 users. Collected, consolidated & presented data.
  Worked from data to brainstorm & create wireframes for a complete UI redesign.
  
  
• Developed a uniform, “Common Look and Feel User Interface” (CLF-UI) design for all current and new web & client deployed software products.
  
  
• Work with development teams across the US, Europe and Asia to insure that this CLF-UI is consistently adopted and that products adhere to usability heuristics.
  Created templates and graphic libraries so that both web-deployed and client-side applications can make the change easily.
  
  
• Work with engineering teams at newly acquired or partner companies to insure their interfaces are consistent with branding and interface standards.
  
  
• Coauthored company wide style guide so that engineers may create visually and behaviorally consistent interfaces across all products.
  Authored chapters covering Navigation, Typography, Visual Elements, Standard Elements and Handicapped Accessibility. Provided visual diagrams and examples throughout entire guide.
  
  
• Work with engineering teams through all planning and development stages to insure that all products meet high standards of interaction design.
  Create and maintain a library of all icons used across all products.
  
  
• Collaborate with writers in creating documentation for the software.
  
  
• HTML, CSS, Javascript, ExtJS, Photoshop, Illustrator, Expression Design & Blend.

Interaction Design
Extreme Organizing, Inc. , Chicago, IL

• Website for a professional organizer specializing in home offices and closets. She already had a logo and wished to continue with it and use that color extensively.
• I researched stock imagery that would truly represent her work and which would compliment the photos she had from her clientele's homes.
• We went through several design revisions to find a way of selling her services without in any way confusing the user. A big issue was making sure that the site said "organized home" and not "interior design".
• Project Management, Designed look and feel of website.
• HTML & CSS
• visit Extreme Organizing

Interaction Design
Oyango Oketch

• Site for an incredibly talented Kenyan sculptor. He had a basic idea of the colors and titles and lots of photos of art.
• I worked the images into a structure that I felt also spoke to the nature of his work, which has many elements inter-layered and pressed together.
• HTML, Javascript & CSS
• visit oketch.com

Interaction Design
Design Angel, Chicago, IL

• Site for a designer specializing in interiors, branding and print design.
• As a designer she had strong ideas of how she wanted the site to be laid out. I worked with her to make her visions more web-centric and to insure a seamless flow of information.
• HTML, Javascript & CSS
• visit Design Angel

Interaction Design
Argo Consulting, Inc., Chicago, IL

• A global company specializing in Lean Transformation and strategy development had a website which conveyed only basic information and in no way reflected their sophistication. They wanted to keep their company logo and carry the colors into the design of the entire site.
• Through the entire process I worked directly with the President & COO. I started by researching the company to understand their work and their competition. I looked at other sites that they liked even if those had nothing to do with Argo's work.
• I managed the project, researched stock stock imagery that matched their work places and practices, kept track of text content, maintained a password protected site where all interested parties could preview site development.
• HTML, CSS & Flash
• visit Argo Consulting

Interaction Design
Wendelken Piano Studio, Tampa, FL

• Award winning piano studio had a very poor site which did not attract new students. I talked extensively with the studio owner to get a sense of her tastes. I brought her into the stock photo search process as well. Her studio already has a very strong reputation. So, she didn't want "more dull pictures of piano keys" but was hoping for something "elegant".
• Because the studio also specializes in other kinds of musical training, we decided on images that were less literal about "piano" but which spoke to ideas of structure and harmony in nature. We decided to go with a warm, rich palette of colors.
• This site has become a way for current students to keep track of upcoming class and performance dates as well as various competition deadlines.
• HTML, CSS
• visit Wendelken Piano Studio