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Zvents for Facebook
2011
Product Management, Interaction Design, Visual Design
This is a set of designs for the Zvents Facebook App.
  • I initially joined Zvents to manage their Facebook strategy and have continued work on the application to maintain, improve, and adapt it to Facebook's ever changing landscape. I wear many hats on this project, product manager, interaction designer, visual designer, and Facebook platform specialist. 
  • This is a mock up of where we're headed with our homepage. We wanted to combine events from many different sources to provide our users with a dashboard of what's going on. We wanted them to be able to view things their friends were doing in addition to fun things Zvents could offer so they can decide what to do each day/night. 
  • This is a mock up of an event detail page. This page was the heart of our traffic and we wanted the experience to be about gathering event information and then sharing. Our main focus of the app was trying to make events go viral using the Facebook platform and sharing tools. Another thing we did a ton of thinking and versions of is the event to event recommendations. The right rail was a custom algorithm that analyzed the event detail content and showed the user events that were similar. This was the secondary action we wanted to drive from event detail pages - secondary clicks to other events. 
  • This is a spec of the performer detail page showing the performers description, upcoming shows, and Facebook Page newsfeed. We used the Facebook API's and did an analysis to match up performer Facebook Pages with the performers in our system which worked quite well.
  • This is a spec for a Venue page that shows the upcoming shows at the venue as well as imported the newsfeed for the appropriate Facebook Page for the Venue if there was one. We did some pretty cool fetching and analyzing of Facebook Pages to match up the right page with the right Venue in our system
  • This is the faceted search results page to help users dive further into the category they're looking for. Events, Venues, and Performers. We found this to be more effective than the normal search results which ranked each one individually and blended them. 
  • This is the user preferences page for the application that allowed users to adjust how often we communicate with them about upcoming events as well as edit their follow list.
  • This is a concept we were playing with the intent of having an event ticket contest facilitated through the Facebook application. Below is a mid-level concept flow and mocks. 
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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
  • Knack.Me
    This is the concept work for my startup called Knack.Me
    Entrepreneurship, Design
    2011
  • Xobni for BlackBerry
    This is a sample of the design work I did for the Xobni Mobile for BlackBerry.
    Product Management, Interaction Design, Visual 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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