Agency work
Misc
An assortment of client projects
Before joining IBM, I worked at a few agencies and another large corporation. Below are a few examples of my work from those early years.
I was one of two designers who worked on AdvancEd(now Cognia)'s suite of apps for school accreditation and improvement. Eleot is a classroom observation tool and Surveys is a survey builder tool, both of which were paper-based before we were brought on to translate into an app ecosystem.
I also established the branding, starting with the general app suite icon and first two apps we worked on. The other ones were given placeholder icons with a style ready for extrapolation when the time came. You can read the full case study here.
In additional to design work on their app suite, we were also brought on to redesign AdvancEd's quarterly publication Source. Most of my work on this was dedicated to branding.
Being an extremely small budget side project, it only allowed for a few short iterations to land on a simple icon and wordmark. The bottom image is a set of alternate icon concepts that didn't make the cut, but that I personally liked.
Napa Auto Part's app, 'Know How' wasn't doing great in the app store due to a few problematic iOS/Android updates, and we were brought on to perform a band-aid fix before another agency did a complete overhaul. There were issues with touching the source code, so we wrapped the existing site code and inserted javascript to clean up the html/css and add some cleaner UX.
Despite being a Designer, I volunteered to give it a shot. I did the best I could using a chrome extension to test on their production site, with the tough limitation of only being able to work with what was already there. The full case study is here, though it doesn't quite fully reflect my own wacky but proud memories of this peculiar project.
During my short term contract position with Macquarium, I was hired to provide design support for their redesign and development of Georgia Natural Gas's site and marketing materials. Things took a bit of a turn, however, when front-end development began to lag behind deadlines.
Having some basic front-end experience, I volunteered to help out and ended up authoring much of the production site, such as the main navigation(which is still being used today) and responsive behavior. Full case study can be found here.
