Kwikpad is a project my brother and I built together when trying to think of better ways of planning upcoming events.  We were frustrated with using eVite because it served a very specific purpose.  Facebook was too much for small events and we didn’t think private events would work very well in the open social environment.

The result is Kwikpad.com, a way to easily setup multiple polls, threaded discussions, scheduling in a straight forward manner.

While Kwikpad is in unofficial ‘beta’, we are currently using it to organize our weekly Ultimate games.

Role: Development, Design, Strategy

For the 2010 G8 University summit, I was hired on to build the event website using a supplied logo as the basis for the theme.  This site was kept simple in design and followed a standard 2 column layout.  Like all event websites I build, my goal is to reduce the navigation depth so I made sure that every section is reachable from the side navigation.  Fortunately, the site had a very concise content plan so the navigation could be laid out in a very open layout.

Role: WebDesign, Development

CED, the Chemical Exchange Database, was developed for the University of British Columbia to serve as a database for researchers to reuse chemicals.   The site facilitates this by providing a searchable directory of chemicals and a very simple process to order chemicals through a three step process.

This site was developed in two phases.  The first was to provide a proof of concept for researchers to test and understand the requirements.   The second phase focussed on the branding and design of the site.

Role: Development, Design

ABCBookWorld is a website that serves as an online database for books and authors in British Columbia.  For this project, I was hired on to redesign the site from its original state.  This primarily involved understanding the clients preference for design tone and creating a new set of layouts, icons, and refining the logo.  The most challenging aspect of this project was creating a site layout that would continue to work well with the existing content.

Role: Design

Buncholinks was created by my brother and I because we were noticing how often we compiled a “bunch” of links to share with each other.  We built buncholinks to make it easier to group a bunch of links into a page that would be easy to share.  In addition, the site allows a user to track these bunches of links through a simple administration system.

This was a fun project to create because it allowed us to explore a perceived “problem” and look at ways of fixing it.  We learned a lot and realized hitting the “mark” is quite difficult as the solution is not necessarily as straightforward as it seems.

Role: Development, Design, Strategy

Memeserver, a product of Invoke Media, is a media distribution service for companies to manage their videos and photos.  Built on the foundations of memelabs, memeserver allows content owners to upload videos/photos in various types of formats through an administration panel.  The system handles media conversion so that all the media can be viewed through an embeddable wiget.  In addition, memeserver comes with an embeddable iframe widget consisting of a slick media playlist, rater system and flash player.

Working for Invoke Media, I led the development of memeserver and assisted with product development.

Role: Development

memelabs, a product of Invoke Media, is an award winning contest platform allowing brands to promote a campaign through video, photo, and essay contesting.  The platform allows turnkey roll out of contest sites and highly customized templating so clients receive a well branded site with a short turnaround time.

As the lead developer for memelabs, I am involved in developing the entire coding framework, design, QA and continued product development.  The main challenge is to ensure the platform is flexible enough to deal with customized demands and retain a core feature set.

Role: Lead Developer, Skinning, Product Development

FRED, Facilities Research & Equipment Database, was developed by HeRRO (a department of UBC) to allow researchers to share and find research related equipment and services.  The site allows any user to post equipment/services through a powerful administrative interface.   Users can find these postings through a powerful search engine which filters by location, type and other attributes.

As the lead for FRED, I was responsible for creating the core framework, design, setting up focus groups, and performing extensive testing.

Roles: Developer, Designer, Product Development.

The HeRRO (Health Research and Resources Office) website was developed and designed by me while I was working at UBC as a web developer.   The site went through many design phases and currently exists as shown in the slide show.  My goal was to create a clean and subtle design that looked modern for a university site.

The development involved creating a mini CMS to allow administrators to post news items, edit pages, upload content and event postings.

Role: Development, Design

The Celebrate Research Week 2007 website was created to act as an online brochure for participants to learn about the yearly event.  As the designer and developer, I had to create the site under very short time constraints.  Fortunately, there were many design assets available as the branding had been completed by this point.

A highlight of this project was being able to exercise a high degree of design creativity using professional assets.  In addition, being able to design the calendar was rewarding when positive feedback came through.

Role: Design, Development

The UBC VP Research website was developed while I worked at UBC as a web developer.  This website was powered by a mini CMS I developed for their specific requirements.  Aside from basic content management, administrators could create event’s which would manage registrants and feed the upcoming events through a RSS system.  Another feature was the ability to create protected sections which were only available to registered users.

Creating the site was a challenge as it involved many features and a large number of stakeholders.  The design phase went through several iterations and development was an on-going process of testing and building.

Roles: Design, Development

The Canada – California Summit was an event website that served as a resource for participants to obtain event and registration information.  As the web designer and developer, my role was to use the provided assets to create a minimalistic event site  that incorporated photos throughout.  In addition, the site consisted of a password protected section for registrants to retrieve secure documents.

Role: Web Designer, Developer