Work–

After getting stuck on the design direction for the product itself, my co-founder Craig Zheng and I took a step back to work on a brand identity system. This helped us establish a visual language that informed the product UI.

Years of research, exploration, iteration, and refinement by Craig and I have led us to a solid concept for v1.0 of Observed. This is the first step in the larger vision, and also a reflection of our approach to product design.

Hudl v3 is an evolution of our main web application intended to address a set of new use cases and markets and provide a product foundation for the new few years. With 3 other designers, I spent some time exploring concepts and directions that would help us meet those requirements.

On a small team of designers and developers, working with our Creative Director John Henry Müller, I helped on an effort to establish a Design System for our product and brand (then figure out a way to retrofit it across a vast and fragmented product surface area).

I lead a small team on an effort to define a clear information architecture for our main product, establish some guidelines around the IA, and then implement the IA in a navigation system in our web app and mobile apps.

Building consistent and coherent UI that can be quickly and universally distributed across the entire product within a microservice-based architecture is not easy. I was on a team that recognized this problem, then built the solution.

I was on a small team tasked with working on our mobile apps. This ended up being a huge set of responsibilities spanning release management, device test coverage, maintenance, re-architecture, and major redesigns across multiple device types starting with our iOS app on iPhone and iPad.

The team I was a part of responsible for our mobile apps also led an effort to modernize our Android app (which historically lagged behind our iOS app). This included some rearchitecture, but also a significant design update leveraging Material Design.

This was a complete rearchitecture and redesign to turn their existing OEM product into a consumer web and mobile application called LivePlay. I lead design across both platforms and helped guide development, along with working with a team on the marketing efforts.

Flint Publisher was a CMS for Alt-Weekly newspapers. We attempted to infiltrate a pretty tough market with an entrenched competitor. We had some mild success, but never enough to break through. Despite that, I'm extremely proud of the quality of the product itself — especially built with just the team of two.

The foundations of the Flint Publisher CMS were built out of a close relationship with CITY Newspaper. We helped them completely update and improve their entire web publishing presense, all while working closely with them on the features that would make up a compelling CMS for Alt-Weeklies.

One of my proudest piece of work, and something that I and many others still use today is a bill reminder tool built way back in 2008 and redesigned in 2010. Built by just myself and my business partner Zack, this product was my first real software product and the fact that its still around, and still helping people, is extremely satisfying.