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Xobni for BlackBerry
2011
Product Management, Interaction Design, Visual Design
This is a sample of the design work I did for the Xobni Mobile for BlackBerry.
  • I was hired at Xobni to lead their mobile efforts. My first focus was building out a BlackBerry experience which dovetailed nicely into the other part of my work at Xobni, Xobni Enterprise and Xobni One (cloud product for your contacts). Below is a look at the design work I did for the BlackBerry client, it's actually just a sliver of the work we did on the BlackBerry platform. I was the product manager and designer for all of the mobile clients. I did both interaction design and the visual design (with some help from our resident rock star designer kobash). 
  • This is a photo of the BlackBerry Xobni App atop the actual print article of our Wall Street Journal review by Katherine Boehret on Walter Mossberg's team. It was an honor working with them and a very proud moment for the Xobni team! Here is a link to the online version.
  • This is a hybrid of a flow chart and a design spec for the out of box user experience. Because we had beta users that were upgrading and the install/upgrade procedure on the BlackBerry OS was less than ideal this flow is quite a bit more complicated than one might expect.
  • This is a flow diagram of the different ways users will learn about the Xobni BlackBerry client and how each experience and ways of marketing to them is different.
  • This is a good overview of the app experience. Users can access the Xobni address book from the native BlackBerry compose screen or from the ribbon (BB Desktop). Users can view full profiles or jump quickly to the preferred communication method. 
  • This is an overview of the data in a contacts profile, the layout and hover treatments.
  • This was a concept for the Xobni App homepage that show both interesting facts about their contacts as well as provide a quick list of contacts the user is likely to want to communicate with that day.
  • This is the mobile landing page promoting the BlackBerry application that I designed.
  • This is a 5x7 glossy card handout for CES that I designed.
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  • Zvents Nameplates
    Mocks from the zvents event and venue nameplate redesign.
    Interaction Design, Visual Design
    2011
  • Zvents Search
    Mocks from the Zvents search results page redesign.
    Interaction Design, Visual Design
    2011
  • Zvents Hot Tickets
    Analysis and redesign of the Zvents event detail page right rail.
    Interaction Design, Design Research, Visual Design
    2011
  • Zvents Top40
    Mock up of the Zvents Top40 site.
    Product Management, Interaction Design, Visual Design
    2011
  • Zvents for Facebook
    This is a set of designs for the Zvents Facebook App.
    Product Management, Interaction Design, Visual Design
    2011
  • Knack.Me
    This is the concept work for my startup called Knack.Me
    Entrepreneurship, Design
    2011
  • Xobni Enterprise
    This is a sample of the product and design work I did for Xobni Enterprise.
    Product Management, Interaction Design, Visual Design
    2011
  • Xobni Extensions
    These are the designs for a couple of Xobni Enterprise Extensions
    Product Management, Interaction Design, Visual Design
    2011
  • hi5 IM
    This is the design for web based on IM on hi5.com
    Interaction Design, Visual Design, Product Management
    2011
  • hi5 Gifts
    This is the design for hi5's virtual gifts
    Interaction Design, Visual Design, Design Management
    2011
  • hi5 Mobile
    This is the design for the mobile hi5 site.
    Interaction Design, Visual Design, Design Management
    2011
  • hi5 Homepage
    This the design and iteration examples for the hi5 homepage redesign.
    Interaction Design, Visual Design, User Research
    2011
  • hi5 Design Patterns
    Examples from the hi5 design pattern library.
    Interaction Design, Visual Design, Design Management
    2011
  • Cyclocross Magazine
    This is work I did as a co-founder of a magazine about the niche cycling sport of Cyclocross. The magazine is still up and running by my co-founder, I stepped away to continue to work on digital projects.
    Print Design, Entrepreneurship
    2011
  • Yahoo! Pingbox
    Yahoo! Messenger Pingbox allows users to chat anonymously with their website visitors using the Yahoo! Messenger service.
    Interaction Design, Design Management
    2011
  • Yahoo! MyM
    Yahoo! MyM blended IM and Social Networking.
    Interaction Design, Design Management, Visual Design
    2011
  • Yahoo! Messenger SMS
    Integration of SMS into the Yahoo! Web Messenger Product.
    Interaction Design, visual design, design management
    2011
  • My Yahoo! IM Widget
    This is the design for the My Yahoo! Messenger Widget.
    Interaction Design
    2011
  • Yahoo! Mac Messenger
    Yahoo! Messenger for Mac
    Interaction Design, visual design, User Research
    2011
  • Yahoo! Messenger Plug-ins
    This is the design for the first version of the Yahoo! Messenger Plug-ins.
    Interaction Design
    2011
  • Yahoo! IM Archive
    Yahoo! IM message archive project.
    Interaction Design, design management, User Research
    2011
  • Opsware
    Opsware Desktop Application Design Specification
    Interaction Design, Usability, User Research
    2011
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