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Designed and developed a new tool for CRFB's website: the Corporate Tax Reform Calculator. It builds off the design aesthetic of another tool that I previously developed for them (the Deficit Reduction Plan Comparison Tool). The client delivered the calculator's model in Excel, which was translated to javascript for the online tool. Most of the […]
A year and half after the launch of BBA's new website, the project has revised some of its prioriites and policy strategies. To reflect these updates, which included adding Facebook and Twitter to their outreach efforts, I worked with them to revise a few of their website's main pages. The more significant changes are on […]
Building off the Interactive SVG USA Map package offered on Code Canyon, I developed and implemented a scalable USA map for the Bold Approach website. Improving on the original code package, I converted the package to work as a jQuery plugin to simplify instantiation and allow mulitple maps of different dimensions with minimal configuration.
Put together some jQuery, PHP, and mySQL to create an AJAX pagination system for the signatories on DebateTheDebt.org. I then applied it to Twitter Bootstrap's default pagination markup. (Wouldn't it be nice if the T-BS guys added something like this to the JS components?) UPDATE: I also added this to ReadyNation.org. In this instance, I tweaked […]
Wow–this was website #3 this week. I'm tired. But, it was great to get this one up for my client, Charles Lewis, a best-selling author, journalist, professor, and founder of the Center for Public Integrity (among other things). We started working on it a few year ago and due to his very, very busy schedule, […]
This new website, developed for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, is the online center piece of a new initiative to get the 2012 presidential candidates to have a debate about the federal budget. I got the call around 7PM from the client telling me they needed something up by first thing the next […]
Wow, to think that IE7, followed by IE6, were the most popular browsers when I was first enlisted on this project! Nearly five years later, after many starts, stops, and re-starts as the content was refined, InvestigatingPower.org is live. I can't imagine many other projects that could have maintained my interest and dedication like this […]
Although it seems a little late in the game, CRFB had me launch a new tool that allows you to compare the budget plans of the leading presidential candidates. I suspect they'll add President Obama's plan soon enough. The site is clearly a rendition of the deficit reduction plan comparisison tool that I designed and […]
Beat the Debt was a quick turn-around project that went from a paper outline to a fully functional, albeit simple, site in 3 business days. I was responsible for the information architecture via a wireframe, basic design and branding (including a basic logo), and the coding/development.
Previously, I set up a form to automatically look up someone's congressional district and legislator by a provided ZIP code. It used the Sunlight Labs API along with a PHP class. The problem was that a given ZIP code can have multiple congressional districts. To further complicate matters, the Sunlight Labs data doesn't have the […]