I design user experiences. I also tell stories. Hello there!
Recent Work
Web Design: CharleeBrodsky.com
I adore the web. I also adore sites that are clean, gorgeous, engaging, appropriate. Here's a site I designed and built for my friend and mentor photographer Charlee Brodsky. Its visual design seeks to present the work as beautifully as when it appears in a gallery, but in a way appropriate to the web.
Visual Design: Wedding Invitations
One of my primary goals in life is to make people's lives better and happier through design. From that perspective, wedding invitations are almost instant gratification! They also allow me to flex my creative and visual muscles when the interaction design ones are getting fatigued. This site captures some of my invitation work for friends and associates who might want to collaborate on an invitation.
Interaction Design: Command Post of the Future
Command Post of the Future (CPOF) is a richly collaborative system built on innovative drag-and-drop interactions; CPOF provides users with powerful visualizations of instantly shared data. Its uniqueness always keeps me on my toes. I have worked on two shipped releases of CPOF (starting on a third) and have supported their deployment to Iraq, Afghanistan, and across the US.
I'd like to tell you more about my work on CPOF, but if I did, I'd have to kill you. Just kidding! Or am I? Contact by email to find out. Here's some general info about CPOF:
Visual Design: Command Post of the Future
Beyond the years of experience I've gained designing interactions and working with developers, I've also become adept at juggling design along with requirements, bugs, and other standard software processes. I've been through the trenches of shipping an application and made it out alive.
I've also had some fun (and some craziness) along the way to a shipped product. Above is a poster made to support developers deployed to Iraq for software upgrade. The meme was cutting edge at the time, I swear.
Information Design: 28X Bus Schedule
At my core, a solid information design foundation informs all of my work in many diverse realms.
This bus schedule prototype used earth tones and recycled paper to give it an unusual, but I would argue more appropriate, user experience. The design also reduced paper usage from the existing schedule by over half and used an unusual diagonal map that allowed for accurate physical representation of the route while also making a visual connection to the times for each stop.
Visual Explorations: Experience Map
When delving into the very artistic side of design, I enjoy making striking visuals that capture emotional experiences and intrigue.
In this exploratory project, this poster is a map, but not a geographical map but instead a map of an experience. It uses a visual metaphor of a tree reflecting in water to guide the reader through a mental and emotional journey.
