Portfolio: “Russian Constructivism” meets American newspaper ads

I used to work for the Tallahassee Democrat, a Knight-Ridder publication, as a “graphics marketing artist”. When I look back at those years, as hard as it was, I had a lot of fun being challenged to come up with …

Portfolio: Web design from the ’90s

Several websites I designed back in the previous century. The 3D image of the guy in the Spine Institute grab was something I set up in Poser. That was an interesting tool!

Bisk Totaltape were the folks who wrote all …

Portfolio: a floor map for Western Avenue Studios

Here is a concept I put together for the Western Avenue Studios, a re-purposed mill complex that is now home to almost 200 artists in 150+ studios. One of the challenges of a large mill complex is explaining to visitors …

Portfolio: Ahold’s very own Peapod

In the early 2000s, Royal Ahold of the Netherlands, owner of stores like Stop-and-Shop and other American grocery retailers, were interested in creating their very own version of Stop-and-Shop’s “Peapod” service which had just been rolled out. A team was …

Portfolio: Visio is great for wireframes and diagrams but for great information design I like Illustrator or Fireworks

I’ve been using Adobe Illustrator now since the late ’80s, and Fireworks from the late ’90s. I have found that these applications are incredibly useful for creating visually stunning and compelling diagrams. This isn’t any new information to information designers, …

Portfolio: Electronic Health Records “progress” indicators for smooth and easy customer experiences

A few years back Google rolled out their EHR (Electronic Health Records) initiative in which they hoped to get health care providers on board to make it easy for users of both products to access their health records online at …

Ongoing project: The Virtual American Revolution

I’ve been working on a neat project for a while now. The Virtual American Revolution is the brainchild of Carlton SooHoo, who has embarked on a journey to photograph, in full 360 degree VR, all of the battlefields and key …

Lack of web accessibility doesn’t save money, it defers costs to other departments

Recently I worked for EDS (now an HP Company) whose client was a major healthcare provider, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. I was tasked as the vendor’s UI designer and usability specialist on location. My role was to affect …

Portfolio: Surfing Lifestyles with the Southern Cross Pin Company

A few friends across the globe used to get together in various places to ski, climb and surf. These activities and lifestyles are what kept them coming together. A business idea was born: gather together various jewelry and accessories that …

Portfolio: State Street Intranet

In 2004 and 2005 I worked for State Street Corporation in their Interactive Marketing group. My job consisted of many duties and activities, including publishing Market Confidence reports to websites, updating and managing content throughout their nine various sites from …

Portfolio: The ePublishing industry in 1999

Interesting Flash interactive I designed back in 2001 for Sapient, right across from us at Mainspring (later acquired by IBM). It was the closest I ever got to working for them, which I had been interested in since I admired …

Portfolio: Thinking Investments

Back in the days before the final “crash” of the Internet era, I was working for a major global business services company on a project for a Goldman-Sachs-backed financial services firm. Thinking Investments aimed to sell subscription-based financial forecasting tools …