Developer of sites, applications, games, & print for 20+ years.
If you're looking to create or fix your web site, you're in the right place.
- Developed 150+ websites
- Designed 50+ transactional apps
- Ran 100+ hours of user tests
- Performed 50+ Heuristic Evals
- Masters in Human Factors
Design
Development
Usability
Usability
Usability helps make interacting with things easier, quicker, and lets people complete tasks, and recover from errors quickly.
This is done through heuristic evaluation, where web pages are reviewed based on user centric guidelines, or user testing, which involves users completing tasks.
Observations from user tests give clues of changes to improve the end product.
Interaction design is the application of usability techniques and design skills to craft the user experience.
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Usability
Changes based on the user experience lead to more sales, and users feeling better about your company.
People stick around longer and buy more.
Techniques like card sorting, where users organize index cards of navigation, flow charting, where paths through your site are mapped to show where people go (and where they are supposed to).
Techniques can all be done before a site is launched, in preparation for a redesign or on existing sites. [...back]
Web & Graphic Design
From doodles on napkins to fully fleshed out ideas I realize client visions for web & print.
I've designed entire sites, individual web pages & specialty sections for eCommerce, and traffic driving.
In the print world I've created logotype, style guides, storyboards, in-house displays, annual reports, newspaper ads, print ads and more creative than I can mention.
I have a proven record of designing and developing on time and on budget.
Web Development
Web development is where all the designs, ideas, text, images and links take real shape.
Final sites contains all the components needed to move between pages, including all the buttons, animations, sound, and video integrated into a cohesive puzzle to drive people to your web space.
I've integrated sites with simple and complex content management systems, blogs, and other site features like mailing lists, eCommerce solutions & social networking.