Job & Business Center Website

Developed as a supplemental resource to Pierce County Library System’s (PCLS) Job & Business Centers (JBC). The JBC website was created to provide PCLS patrons with an authoritative resource for information, advice, tools, and resources dealing with jobs, business, finance, and education.

The second iteration of this project, this design aimed to clean up and consolidate navigation, improve readability, better feature new content and resources, and improve the overall polish and look of the site.

Library Floorplan Project

Libraries update their spaces somewhat frequently to address service needs, changing collections, building renovations, and staffing requirements.  This project aimed to provide library staff with a dynamic tool for quickly and easily making changes to the existing floorplan.

Tool Used: Floorplanner

The 2010 holiday season brought on a surge of e-reader toting library users eager to scoop up whatever e-books they could get their hands on.  Fortunately, the library I work at offered our users quite a few (I think around 8,000+ post-holiday).

Unfortunately, the number of steps involved in accessing these e-books called for some further explanation.  This document was generally followed with the following e-reader comparison chart.

A prototype for a project proposal delivering reader’s advisory content in simple, straightforward design.  The design integrates cover art for books, movies, and music through reviews and curated lists.  User-voting is built into each review, adding another layer of interaction to the existing commenting system.

Emergency Service Institute

Commercial website for a company that produces training materials and resources for the emergency service industry.  Client wanted a place to feature information about the services he offered, individual products, contact information, and a catalog of hierarchical training programs and materials.

For those libraries that still have paper card applications, a lot could be done to punch these up as both practical registration forms as well as marketing material.  The library card application I proposed here was two-sided.  One side contains all of the information required by the library for registration, and the other side contained basic promotional information for the library’s services, locations, mission, etc.

Library card applications make the most sense living out in the community, where the promotional information can answer some of the basic questions and the work can be done to fill out the form before coming into to the library.

It’s often the case that the library computing experience does not mirror the home computing experience.  In an effort to preserve the security and longevity of library computers, the desktop environment (some version of Microsoft Windows) is often stripped of most of its functionality, if not entirely.  This means having to learn how to save files (among other tasks) anew.

The following instructional flyer appeared near library computers.

This project aimed to present the works of a fine artist (mostly paintings and drawings) in a form and style familiar to a traditional gallery patron.  The entirety of the site was hand-coded, visually prototyped and designed in Photoshop, and employed a Flash toolset for the image gallery/carousel.

The gateway page for this artist’s online portfolio set the tone for the rest of the site: a digital analogue of a gallery space, with the artist’s works hanging on the walls.  Visual clutter was minimized with simple navigation and a focus on the works presented.

“Selected Works” were organized in a flash-based carousel, sorting images into either subject or medium-based groups.  Images could be cycled through individually or viewed as a timed slideshow.

Commerical website for Puyallup area architectural firm looking for business and marketing presence on the web.