For this project, JiWire hired me to help design a Wi-Fi finder web app for their partner, Verizon Wireless. We took an existing partner’s Wi-Fi finder web app I helped with years ago and polished-up the user experience. The Verizon version uses cutting-edge mapping technology, animation and dynamic widgets to create an intuitive directory and mapping experience.

Version 2 of the JiWire Wi-Fi Finder for iPhone introduces new features like embedded maps and sharing. But most of all, it introduces a feature that should quell the majority of bad reviews v1 received: an offline Wi-Fi hotspot finder. iPod Touch users weren’t shy to point out that the Wi-Fi Finder didn’t do much [...]

Lottay is an online gifting site with a twist. What separates Lottay from the pack is that you can wish for anything—from a cup of coffee to a trip to Europe. They can do this because what you’re receiving in the end isn’t the actual physical gift, but the money friends and family have donated [...]

The project was to design Martini’s first corporate web site and establish their brand identity. The target audience was both luxury brands seeking online ad placement and publishers catering to affluent consumers. Larger-than-life images were used to create visual impact, reflect the different affluent verticals and help align Martini with other online luxury domains.
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RICOM, an online seller of refurbished and new IT equipment, approached me with the idea of “re-skinning” their existing web site. I’m always skeptical when clients ask me to re-skin an existing site or application. Sometimes it’s an effort to consciously or unconsciously cover up more serious design problems. Re-skinning a broken design to make [...]

TerraPass is web site where users can buy carbon credits to help displace their carbon footprint. For this project, I worked with TerraPass and their interaction designer to combine three separate carbon calculators for driving, air travel and home and package them into one. The visual design goals were focused on reducing clutter and presenting [...]

JiWire has a history of building their Wi-Fi Hotspot Finder in just about every flavor you can imagine: toolbars, widgets, plug-ins, mobile apps, etc. This version was v3 of the online/offline Wi-Fi finder which I also originally did the interaction design for. V3 was designed for Windows Vista when the OS first came out.

JiWire was one of the first to have a Mac widget and jumped on the opportunity to build one for Yahoo! when they launched their own desktop widgets. The JiWire widget for Yahoo! had the additional feature of maps. For this project, I designed both the interaction design carried over from the Mac version, and [...]