About Me

At an early age, I had an ever-growing interest in anything web related which, fairly quickly, accrued into a passion. Today, I have been immersed in web technologies for over 15+ years, 10 of which have been in a professional environment. My focus has always been on clean, simple, highly effective web applications that fulfill three criteria. They must be effective, efficient, and bring satisfaction to the user. More »

My Indoor Interests
  • User Experience
  • Wireframing & Annotating
  • Usability
  • Interaction Design
  • Visual/Creative Design
  • Information Architecture
  • XHTML/HTML
  • Advanced CSS
  • JavaScript/AJAX
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Search Engine Optimization
My Outdoor Interests
  • Hiking
  • Backpacking/Camping
  • Snowboarding
  • Fishing
  • Bowhunting
  • Trail Running
  • Mountain Climbing
  • Rafting

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Portfolio

Below are several samples of my work that touch on user experience life-cycles, user flows, wire-frames, visuals design and usability testing.

User Experience Lifecycle

This is the user experience lifecycle that I've created for myself and my team. This is what we strive to follow when designing new concepts to make sure what is produced meets the user's expectations. The basics of it are taken from Jesse James Garrett's The Elements of User Experience; a good book and one I'd highly suggest if you have not yet read it.

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Visual Design

For the past 2 years I have been leading the interaction design, visual design, and usability teams through a 3 (2 released so far) e-commerce site, 1 community site overhaul. We are transitioning off our old platforms onto 2 new enterprise platforms. This section represents this transition from past visuals to current visuals.

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The following represent some additional visual designs done for personal projects.

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Mobile Wireframes

These wireframes represent a version of the Musician's Friend Stupid Deal of the Day iPhone application.

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Usability Test Plan

This is a usability test plan I put together for testing the new Music123.com site. We rolled a brand new design onto a new enterprise e-commerce system called ATG and needed to do the appropriate usability testing to make sure customers were able to utilize the features correctly.

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E-Commerce Browse Flows

These show sample user flows for browsing down a taxonomy of products.

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Customer Beta Site Flows

Below is the plan we used when beta testing our new Musician's Friend website. We needed a way to move a select amount of customers from our normal site to the new site for testing.

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JIVE/Music123 Community Wireframes

The following wireframes represent a clickable prototype to show the integration between JIVE community and Music123 on ATG.

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