Project: Re-Tweet Radar
Role: Design
Ben Hedrington (whom I worked with at Best Buy) launched Re-tweet Radar and ran it on a monitor in our area. His site was meant to extract meaning from a large set of social media messages in near real time and visually trend it over time, showing topics heating up in conversations even while still slightly off the conventional news radar. Ben is a amazing developer but a designer he admittedly is not. I asked him if he would be ok if I reskinned it and made a logo...he was like "heck yeah!"
The resulting design was liquid to accommodate different screens and reorganized to call out top people and links. The colors and sizes in the tag cloud helped to quickly show the trends, and the additional navigation allowed users more control over the data stream.
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I currently work as a UX Manager at Amazon and lead a team of 16 talanted UX desingers, Design Technologists, and Visual Designers. I've worked on the web my entire career and lately have been working more on responsive design, mobile/tablet experiences and self service product design. I'm continually researching where the internet is heading and love the ongoing learning process that working on it affords. Adapt or die.
Through my career have worked at small startups, medium sized agencies, and large corporations. I prefer working on sites that have "scale", because of the amount of data and user research available to inform my design decisions. I believe that just because something looks great doesn't mean it's working for the end user. I have a BS in Design Communication from the University of Minnesota and an MS in Technology from Capella University.
I love spending time with my ladies (my awesome wife Stacey and our kitty Foxy Brown). In between launches we travel to get outdoors and stay active as well as hit a beach and relax. I'm a huge music fan (only the good stuff) and have an expanding collection of Hip-hop, Metal, DJ, Electronic, and Classical music. If I'm not on the Internet you can find me mountain biking, hiking, on Xbox, or researching my next car. I also have competed in some beard and mustache growing competitions and am known to have ever-changing facial hair. Some people say I have a decent sense of humor...
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