Friday, December 25, 2009

2k50: An Experimental Project



I've been working on a personal side project called "2k50: The 50 Best Songs of the Decade," which just went up a few days ago. I spent weeks compiling my 50 favorite songs of 2000-2009, and am now posting 5 more every day until December 30 (50-26 are up as of this writing). This project also served as an opportunity to further explore Wordpress as a site management solution. It worked wonderfully, and has given me a lot of insight into how to build sites that clients can update themselves even if they don't know how to code. Furthermore, I even learned a new thing or two about CSS layouts. This may not mean much to those who don't know coding, but I was able to design the site using solely text and CSS-scripted boxes of color -- this is a great technique in general as it not only makes pages load faster, but improves searchability.

Check it out: 2k50: The 50 Best Songs of the Decade

Monday, December 21, 2009

New work up: Duracell.com


A few months ago I was on the team redesigning Duracell's website, with my focus on the user experience side of things. The wireframes I worked on (which were partially based on designs another interaction designer had created - I certainly can't take 100% credit!) were used by the creative and tech teams to implement the site. I'm pretty happy with the end result!

Visit Duracell.com