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Skill: Usability and User Experience

State Education Standard (Digital First)

For the first time in its history, NASBE launched a digital-only version of the State Education Standard, a refereed journal that provides insight into education policy issues that are significant for state boards of education. We designed and built the new digital-first theme, based in WordPress, which gives priority to on-screen readibility for all devices, […]

Investigating Power 2.0 Launched

We just launched redesigned and redeveloped Investigating Power website, a project about investigative journalists who exposed government corruption, documented institutionalized racism and uncovered the truth about deadly products from tobacco to pesticides. We designed and built the original in 2008. The new version has an updated modern feel with many technical improvements including an improved […]

ATTIC City (beta) Released: Philadelphia and Boston

The popular furniture and home decor search engine, ATTIC, has been released as a beta version in two new cities: Philadelphia and Boston. The new version is expanded to include new cities and neighborhoods in two important vintage furniture markets. The Philadelphia site will include midcentury furniture stores, antique dealers and similar in Philly proper, […]

Improved CMS Media Uploader

We built on top of an existing CodeIgniter-based content management system using Angular, a modern JavaScript framework, to create a highly improved media management system that allow for fast searching and sorting of a large media database.

WIC-CDC Community Data Reporting Portal Launched

For our client the National WIC Association (NWA), we developed a data reporting tool to help CDC community grantees throughout the country comply with monthly and quarterly Federal program reporting requirements. The portal allows authorized users (grantees) to submit detailed reports about their progress toward meeting program goals and objectives.  We developed a custom user […]

Website Wireframe for Public Health Campaign

Developing a wireframe, or more accurately an interactive prototype, for a new website that we be the key online presence for a forthcoming public health and education campaign. This website will be launched for a pilot, regional market to evaluate the campaign's effectiveness and potential for national deployment. The prototype is being developed in HTML5 […]

Information Architecture for DC-based Real Estate Website

Met with the client to discuss their requirements, establish user profiles and initial architecture concepts. Subsequently provided an information architecture proposal, including a novel navigation scheme, geared specifically to reaching the firms three primary stakeholders: real estate sellers, buyers, and financial/lending institutions.

Prototyping New WordPress Template

Prototyping — i.e., scaffolding out the HTML markup — for a set of new WordPress templates for the National Endowment for Democracy, Center for International Media Assistance. The goal of the new templates is to take long-form prose documents and make them more digestible by generalized audiences. Techniques include drawing out and highlighting important information such […]

CMS, Event and Learning Management System Integration

Compelted and launched an intricate set of functionality that involved integrating and connecting the custom Adaptr CMS and event management system we built for the National WIC Association with the iCohere learning management system (LMS). Utilized iCohere's API and Single Sign On service (SSO), alongside our Stripe-powered payment system to create a completely seamless user […]

Revised Information Architecture and Navigation for Evolution Strategy Group

As the intial phase of the consulting work for Evolution Strategy group, we reviewed the site's existing strucuture and proposed a series of changes to streamline the navigation and overall information architecture. We will subsequently implement these changes on the client's WordPress website, as well as make a variety of design enhancements.

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