UX (User Experience) work involves identifying recurring patterns in user behavior and preferences to create intuitive and effective interfaces, leveraging established design patterns to streamline user interactions and enhance usability. It focuses on understanding and implementing patterns that optimize user engagement and satisfaction across various digital platforms and products.
Apel & Banini makes creative digital tools to be used for collaboration in your own, private “extranet.” It has a broad range of applications for teams including live performances, problem solving, ideation, gaming, education, and more. One may curate, create, and consume most any interactive digital media on flat screens or XR headsets.
Imagine stepping into a library and immersing yourself in the process of discovery, where every visit is filled with delightful encounters of knowledge. Whether you arrive with a purpose or stumble upon it by chance, a library should offer an experience of endless exploration and learning.
Photon Particle was a game experiment. The setting is a cave with crystals. There is a photon which bounces off the cave walls and when it hits a crystal the crystal blows up. The point is to blow up more crystals yourself. This game was created for Google cardboard using Unity.
XDP Magazine was an Apple Newsstand magazine of interviews with people making headway in Experimental Digital Publishing (XDP). The idea was to make the magazine completely interactive and contain multimedia content.
Splatlab was an Apple iPhone App that allowed users to create SVG illustrations on the web. This App was conceived before an Apple App Store existed and realized one day before the Original Apple iPhone was even released.
Primitive was a decentralized immersive social network geared toward the cultural and creative arts. Below is the pitch deck I prepared.
"Ringin' Jinkies" is the Art Game project with the mission of showing how Art differs from Advertising and Entertainment.
Senior Creative Technologist for the design firm "Don't Make Art" Responsible for all front-end development and contributed to technical ideation of final product.
ArtAcclaim was a concept site that allowed people to post their own contemporary art and have it privately critiqued and given “acclaim.” The best art climbed to the top of visibility.