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I am…

  • The artsiest person in the tech shop
  • The techiest person in the art shop
  • An advocate for the H in HCI
  • A believer in design-as-planning not design-as-decoration
  • Useful to have around
  • Too busy to pretty up my own website

I sling…

  • CSS3 via Sass
  • Django
  • Drupal 6 and 7
  • PHP if I must
  • MySQL because I always have
  • A wee bit of JavaScript
  • Python when I’m tired of repeating myself
  • Photographs of whiteboards all wackadoo with lines and arrows
  • Omnigraffle, Illustrator, Photoshop
  • Git to clean up the mess

Five huge things I built in the last six months

MercyCorps.org Redesign, 2013

This here’s my Moby Dick. I designed all of it. Every last pixel, every last page. Responsive layout, mobile-ready, content-first, whoo wee! I also designed the user experience, UI and branding details. In the meantime we migrated the site to Drupal 7. I did no small amount of engineering: I wrote 112,000 lines of front-end code[OK: that’s counting lines committed to Git. But still!] I even developed a janky pile of scripts that generated the visual styleguide from comments in my SCSS files because I’m lazy like that. Nonprofit Tech 2.0 called it a “responsively designed nonprofit website to study and learn from.”

Mercy Corps Gifts Redesign, 2012

Pixel-precise designs for Every. Single. Screen. (This is funny because I design in code so I had to wire up a workflow that scraped my HTML comps and made PSDs for the engineering vendor.) Fulfillment and web assets for every product. I also designed the user experience including a radically-revamped personalize-and-checkout process. I designed (and mostly-built) the last three versions too, but who’s counting?

Cognitive Atlas, 2012

Visual (re)design and general UX spruce-up based on previous work by designers at Squishymedia. Front-end code in PHP, CSS3, JQuery.

See a few pre-2012 works in my portfolio. Usual caveat about cobbler’s children applies.

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