June 15th, 2011 - Yahoo! App Search & AppSpot app launches!
Discovering and finding apps you want is not always easy. We created a new destination on Yahoo! Search which helps this process. Whether you are browsing or searching, there’s an easy streamlined way of finding apps and then quickly downloading either to your iPhone and Android device.
My role: Interaction, visual design
Oct 13th, 2010 - Yahoo! Search Shopping Intent Experiences launches!
Design process: From analyzing search trends and behaviors, there were direct and indirect signal that our users were in different stages of the shopping process. From researching, comparing against other products to ready to buy, we broke the mold of the traditional 10 blue links to offer a visual approach to surfacing key relevant pieces of information to the user to inform and help take them to the next step of the shopping process.
My role: Interaction, visual design
From July 12 - Aug 20th 2010, I took part in an intensive workshop at the School of Visual Arts - Impact: Design for Social Change, the first of it’s kind. Yes, we were guinea pigs. 16 designers from Portugal, Brazil, Australia and the U.S. came together for 6 weeks to develop our “big ideas” for social change under the guidance of amazing pioneers in the field of social change. It was truly inspiring on so many levels.
My Big Idea: The Beta School
Education meets Netflix. The Beta School is an open platform that nurtures new ideas and educational materials created and shared by new teachers from around the world. Teachers share lesson plans, create a queue of downloaded materials for their classes, rate and review ideas and receive recommendations based on their profiles. Teachers can also create their version of “textbooks” based on a compilation of their downloaded lessons from BetaSchool. Once they are done, the book will be recycled and donated to low budget schools around the world.
In addition to developing our own Big Ideas, we worked in teams to offer design solutions to 5 NYC non-profit organizations through an amazing organization called designyc.
Our client: Democracy Now! - an independent news radio and tv show
The challenge: Build audience
Our design solution: Create a viral web marketing campaign to build new audiences by mobilizing their existing loyal fan base.
Role: Web designer and developer, art direction, project manager
From June 6th - June 20th 2010, I traveled to Greensboro Alabama to take part in Project M, a 2 week summer program to inspire young creative people to do good by thinking wrong. We created a video, website and infographics to bring to life the effects of the BP oil spill in the gulf. After 56 days with little new information from the media, we decided to drive down to the coast, speak to the locals and tourists, and document what we saw for the world to see.
Role: Website interaction and visual designer, photographer, actor
Free Art Park is a concept I came up with for my Creating a Retail Store Image class at Parsons School of Design. Free Art Park is half design studio for local artists by day and by night a lounge/gallery/interactive studio open to the public. It is completely run by the community of artists and serves as a storefront to promote their work. The goal is to bring the community together, learn and share ideas across disciplines and encourage participation from the people in the neighborhood all at the same time.
Sketches of the store front concept - Free Art Park
