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  • User testing from a designers perspective

    A couple of weeks back we took our latest website site design to the annual conference which my employers host. This is a pretty well attended event which takes place over three days. I was told that 14,000 people came to the event this year. A healthy number by my standards and a great opportunity [...]

  • Why I’m developing with Yahoo Astra

    Yahoo Astra is Yahoo’s answer to the components that are missing from flash, such as: tree menu, alert windows, carousel, charts, auto suggest, menu, menu bar, tab bar and layout managers. Many of these elements can be found in Flex Flash Builder, but that won’t do you much good if you are developing in the [...]

  • ACS Release 2 designs approved

    Working with the creative professionals at the American Chemical Society has been a pleasure. Recently the ACS embarked on a new branding campaign developed by Gyro International. I am pleased to have had the opportunity to develop the web initiative. On the right I’ve posted a conceptual mock-up developed for the ACS.org home page.

  • Sample Websites

    The following URL’s represent a few samples of my work. I will make more samples available as time permits. If you are prompted for a password and would like to see more please feel free to contact me and I will arrange for a private viewing. ACS Network: http://www.acs.org/network Solana Business Forum: http://www.solanabusinessforum.com Sacred Spaces [...]

  • ACS Communities website launched

    The  ACS Communities website just launched. This project brings a community based toolset to the ACS Network website based on the Jive Clearspace platform.  I’m really happy to have been the lead designer on this project as the community memberships now grows past 16,000 members. A special thanks goes to BJ Ball for helping me [...]

  • ACS Strategic Plan 2009 website launched

    The ACS Strategic Plan 2009 Website has launched and can be viewed at strategy.acs.org Joanna Lit from my team did a beautiful job on the design and provided proved a very quick learner to boot as she assumed responsibility for about half of the AS3 coding. In addition to art direction, I took a personal [...]