Knack.Me
2011
Entrepreneurship, Design
This is the concept work for my startup called Knack.Me
- This was my startup for 6 months. I met with VC's, sought technical co-founders, worked on a business plan, and started to work with a engineering firm to build out my idea. I wanted to build a crowd sourced tagging system for professionals. One that both gave users an interesting look at their skills as well as gave them insights for areas of development. I put the project on the shelf to join Zvents but haven't lost hope.
- This is the logged out homepage screen where the service is pitched and hopefully understood by visitors.

- This "hot or not" style game was a method for applying tags to your network. More importantly, it would naturally lead you to whom you thought was the most "n", n being a personal attribute for such as creative.

- This is the users profile where you can see their tag and how strong they are. You could also add tags to yourself but they wouldn't show up externally until they were confirmed by other users .Tags also were weighted and I worked on an interesting tag scoring algorithm.

- In addition to people being taggable so were companies. This would give someone a quick overview of the strengths, weaknesses, and common characteristics of a company - all user driven of course.

- Users have connections and the view into that connections list would also allow them to see their most creative contacts or all of their contacts they tagged with leadership for example. At a high level I thought of this as giving the user ways to access different sections of their contacts for different reasons.

- This screen shows my monetization strategy I was heading towards. Recruiting and networking. This tool allowed users to search for people that match exact criteria using the tags and tag weights. When I set out I wanted to see if I could answer this simple question: "who is the top javascript engineer in the silicon valley?"

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Mocks from the zvents event and venue nameplate redesign.Interaction Design, Visual Design2011 -
Mocks from the Zvents search results page redesign.Interaction Design, Visual Design2011 -
Analysis and redesign of the Zvents event detail page right rail.Interaction Design, Design Research, Visual Design2011 -
Mock up of the Zvents Top40 site.Product Management, Interaction Design, Visual Design2011 -
This is a set of designs for the Zvents Facebook App.Product Management, Interaction Design, Visual Design2011 -
This is a sample of the design work I did for the Xobni Mobile for BlackBerry.Product Management, Interaction Design, Visual Design2011 -
This is a sample of the product and design work I did for Xobni Enterprise.Product Management, Interaction Design, Visual Design2011 -
These are the designs for a couple of Xobni Enterprise ExtensionsProduct Management, Interaction Design, Visual Design2011 -
This is the design for web based on IM on hi5.comInteraction Design, Visual Design, Product Management2011 -
This is the design for hi5's virtual giftsInteraction Design, Visual Design, Design Management2011 -
This is the design for the mobile hi5 site.Interaction Design, Visual Design, Design Management2011 -
This the design and iteration examples for the hi5 homepage redesign.Interaction Design, Visual Design, User Research2011 -
Examples from the hi5 design pattern library.Interaction Design, Visual Design, Design Management2011 -
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, Entrepreneurship2011 -
Yahoo! Messenger Pingbox allows users to chat anonymously with their website visitors using the Yahoo! Messenger service.Interaction Design, Design Management2011 -
Yahoo! MyM blended IM and Social Networking.Interaction Design, Design Management, Visual Design2011 -
Integration of SMS into the Yahoo! Web Messenger Product.Interaction Design, visual design, design management2011 -
This is the design for the My Yahoo! Messenger Widget.Interaction Design2011 -
Yahoo! Messenger for MacInteraction Design, visual design, User Research2011 -
This is the design for the first version of the Yahoo! Messenger Plug-ins.Interaction Design2011 -
Yahoo! IM message archive project.Interaction Design, design management, User Research2011 -
Opsware Desktop Application Design SpecificationInteraction Design, Usability, User Research2011
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