Websites for Clients
I maintain websites at the University of California, Berkeley as my "day job." I also do some freelance web and print design work for private clients.
2011
Understanding the Horn of Africa, UC Berkeley Center for African Studies
This web portal project is being funded by the US Department of Education. It is slated for completion in 2013. I was the User Experience Designer, so I was responsible for front end design (the "look and feel" of the site) and the information architecture. I also created content such as the Frog and the Scorpion videos, and some mapping videos. A programming team is building my design in Drupal and scholars of African studies are populating the content.
Below are screenshots of my designs, which will not be live until 2012-2013. In the mean time, you can also enjoy the temporary site I built to announce the project: http://understandingthehorn.org/
YOU CAN CLICK ON EITHER IMAGE FOR A LARGER VERSION.
I have also been creating graphics for the project, such as these promotional bookmarks for African studies conferences.
Xlab, UC Berkeley
I created a redesign for UC Berkeley's Xlab. They are still filling in their content, but here is a screenshot of the front page:
2010
RESIN Team, UC Berkeley: http://ccrm.berkeley.edu/resin/
I had a wonderful time creating a site with the research team RESIN, which stands for Resilient and Susainable Infrastructure Networks. RESIN, headed by Professor Bob Bea, studies the infrastructure systems of Sherman Island, a major choke point for power to the San Francisco Bay Area in the case of an earthquake or other disaster. RESIN is part of a larger Catastrophic Risk Management research team, and they are comprised of civil engineers, organizational management experts, and others. I found that I work very well--joyfully even--with engineering teams. Their systematic thought lends itself well to my work style, and they have a strong appreciation for visual-spatial thinking so I had complete creative freedom, within the contstraints of their budget. As a nod to that budget, I used a UC Berkeley template as a starting point for structure, but I changed the visual design completely to suit my aesthetics and those of the team.
Office of Sustainability, TInkerbee Video
I produced this video for the Office of Sustainability using their guidelines for sustainable features that they wanted to highlight on campus. We had a budget of $30 for props and costuming, and a budget for 60 hours of my time. My concept was: Tinkerbell meets 1970's roller derby funk, and she acts as an avatar giving the viewer a tour of sustainable UC Berkeley. Kira Stoll, of the Office of Sustainability, came up with the avatar's name, Tinkerbee, and designated her as the UC Beeeeeeee. Undergraduates shot the still images to match my storyboard instructions.
2009
Understanding the Sudan, UC Berkeley Center for African Studies: http://understandingsudan.org/
I came to this project, funded by the US Department of Education, near the end. I needed to re-design the somewhat confusing navigation architecture and spruce up the visual design within given parameters. The Department of Education was so impressed with our efforts, calling it "the best site of it's kind" they had seen, that they gave us an additional grant to create a similar site for the Horn of Africa. (See 2011.)
2008
Golden Gate Chiropractic, San Fracisco: (Content is still evolving.)