mobi's Mobile App
mobi.Connect
ux designui designUsed by fleet technicians out in the field to communicate with dispatchers, mobi's first mobile app is developed to work for correspondence with dispatchers using mobi.Dispatch or mobi.Locate. Job statuses can be updated, jobs can be added and removed, and notes can be left regarding job-specific concerns and customer changes. It's designed to be simple and streamlined for ease of use on the field, minimizing the amount of effort technicians need in order to get their jobs done and to move on to the next.
Trail Roots website redesign
A trail running club gets a new website
web designbrandingAustin-based running group Trail Roots focuses on training for both road and trail races for groups and individuals. The existing website was there, but information was hard to find and things that the founder and owner wanted to highlight to visitors weren't anywhere to be seen on the home page. We worked out what the main functions were to be of the new site, and broke everything down into Training, Maps, and Travel categories, with potential to add Races in the future when those were established. Branding and logos already existed, so I developed the site to emphasize the warm, earthy vibe the organizer wanted to reinforce in his business.
Credit Donkey infographics
Storytelling with infovis
information designgraphic designfreelancingDuring my final four semesters of school, I worked on side projects with CreditDonkey.com founder Charles Tran. He contacted me after discovering my winning infographic entry into a 99designs.com competition and asked me to help design infographics for his website's blog. Other freelance writers and researchers helped collect the data and topics behind each infographic, which often paired with another article on the same subject, and I helped create the visuals, the data representation, and the narrative behind them.
mobi Logo Design
Pointserve goes through a rebranding
brandinglogo designMy first job at Pointserve: Design the new logo using the new name. I wasn't told what the company did and the website did little to help me understand. I was given a set of branding colors to go from, a proposal logo from one of the VPs of a cell tower with a signal. I had 4 separate meetings with the stakeholders and VPs regarding the logo design and 5-6 iterations (some vastly different from the other) to narrow down what it was they were looking for since I was given free reign of the design in the beginning. Ultimately it was settled that a road was a key identifier that they wanted used in the logo design.
Architecture Studio Designs
My work from semesters 5 through 10
architecturegraphic designinformation designDone during 2010–2011 during the summers. For all but Semester 6, the projects took the entire semester. An initial design problem selected by the professor was established with program needs and rough estimates of square footages in some cases. Then began a research phase where we studied the site, the conditions, the use-cases and audience, and then developed a design parti (defined as the chief organizing thought or decision behind an architect's design presented in the form of a basic diagram and / or a simple statement). Construction documents, renderings, physical and digital models, and other representations of the ideas were composed and presented in front of a review of critics of varying backgrounds and professions.
99 Designs competitions
Design competitions done at 99designs.com
brandingarchitecturelogo designinformation designfreelancing99designs is a website driven by companies in search of logos, marketing material, websites, and more looking for the best available talent. Each design need is packaged as a contest with design brief where any designer can participate in and submit their designs. The chosen winners immediately can collect the prize money for their designs and exchange the final material with the contest-creator. It was a great opportunity to try my hand at new design briefs and get some of my work out in public and win my first income as a designer in college. Through 99designs I was discovered by CreditDonkey.com to design infographics and later help them out with their UX.
Architectural Photography
A photography class with an emphasis on the built environment
photographyarchitectureDuring my final semester at IIT, I took a transformative architectural photography elective that I didn't need to graduate. I learned the functional use of a DSLR as well as compositional strategies related to photos of buildings and spaces, from conveying use of space without even showing a single person in the photo from illuminating the circulation through the space with composition alone.