Brand Voice: Microsoft Essentials Style Guide
Essentials communications should feel human, not corporate or slick. Using Microsoft's all-up brand guidelines as a starting point, this new Essentials identity brings momentum, relevance, and humanity to these personal touchpoints with employees.
Content Redesign: Accessibility at Microsoft
Based on our UX analysis, we plan to design the page around the candidate experience (leading with what they’ll need as applicants, then following with the support they can expect as employees) to support users through every stage of their career journey.
Content Redesign: "Cinemas" at Northwest Film Forum
Our team's analysis found that “Cinemas” has some of the highest traffic and highest bounce rates on the site. This suggests users are looking for clear movie times and details, but their needs aren’t being met. As such, we’re proposing a pared-down redesign that clearly explains the section’s role and consistently supplies users with the information they seek.
Competitive Teardown: Movie and Ticket Websites
The sites examined here all recognize one thing: users come to them for information. They acknowledge and support this aim by making the sought-after information easy to find without burdening the users with excess and distracting them from their original goal. These offer useful models for Northwest Film Forum's web redesign.
User Journey Mapping: Going to the Movies
Seeing a movie is a social experience--people rarely do it by themselves. This journey map attempts to capture that process in hopes of better understanding users' motivations when visiting movie sites like Northwest Film Forum's.
Consultation: Recommendations for Growth at Wikipedia
Wikipedia's done well in identifying its problems with contributor retention. Adding these suggestions on top of current efforts, however, should heighten their effectiveness by instilling the culture with a bit more humanity—the real heart of every community.
Consultation: Configuring "Open Town Hall" for King County
Open Town Hall holds considerable promise for King County. With consistent and caring supervision—and some of the lessons from existing research I’ve outlined in this paper—I expect the platform to house a vibrant and vocal community in the not-too-distant future.
The Witness is a testament to cognitive conquest and a tribute to the notion that "fun" results from learning something new.
Erasure of reading trails in Twelve Blue uncovers profound insight on the inherently knotted nature of writing and wraps the findings in a stunning blue ribbon.
Satellite Smash and The Satellite Network
[COMING SOON]
The world’s going dark. The lanterns powering it are waning, and it’ll take a cosmic miracle to bring them back. As a young star, your stardust can set lanterns ablaze once more…but how much are you prepared to give?
This folk record may lack the fiddlin’-quick tempo of its 2012 peers, but the band’s debut album is further proof that the soft-spoken are worth hearing.
If you’ve got a sweet tooth for electronic hooks, Wildlife Pop serves up candy in spades.
The record—adorned with tremendously catchy campfire claps and a refreshing platter of Carlile philosophy—houses a refined acceptance, an optimistic resolve, and a whole lot of fun.
Here - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
In Here, the group sacrifices musical variety for sparse arrangements and whispered vocal stylings, a trade-off that leaves the record without the eccentric bombast and instrumental depth of its predecessor.