Companies:

One Kings Lane (2010-Present, variously)

• One Kings Lane is a flash sale site specializing in interior decor
• Projects included redesigning the overall site, enabling a new "Vintage and Market Finds" shopping area, and redesigning the overall process by which One Kings Lane onboards inventory from their vendors

Talent Bin (2012)

• Talent Bin is a site that specializes in enabling recruiters to find and contact candidates (mostly software developers).
• Provided redesign input for Talent Bin's home page and overall search experience

Intuit (2012)

• Designed the Payment Center for Intuit's QuickBooks

Gigwalk (2012)

• Gigwalk is a service that enables individual "Gigwalkers" to complete small tasks from companies (including Microsoft and eBay) for pay
• I redesigned the Gigwalk site and mobile app to enable new types of Gigs to be completed

Euclid (2011)

• Euclid is a service that enables physical stores to monitor and impact their real-world foot traffic
• Worked with Euclid to launch their initial site design & information visualization dashboard

SxSW 2011 Panel: "Are We Having Fun Yet? 10 Usability Heuristics for Games" (2010)

• Co-presented the panel "Are We Having Fun Yet? 10 Usabiltiy Heuristics for Games" (full audio available)
• Excerpt: "Jakob Nielsen gave us the ten canonized Usability Heuristics for web and system design; our humble goal is to do the same for computer games."

Clover (2010)

• Clover originally was focused in the advertising space
• I worked with another designer for the initial launch of the service, including design of their ads

Chegg (2010)

• Chegg is a popular textbook rental company
• Worked with Chegg to integrate their acquisitions of CourseRank and Cramster, as well as several other projects

Uptake (2010)

• Uptake was a site that helped people make travel plans by recommending the best hotels and activities
• End-to-end redesign, especially focused around creating a design framework that scaled well to a multitude of possible use cases

flickr (2010)

• Worked with flickr to investigate and prioritize opportunities in the mobile space
• Included some mobile web design work

Who's That? (2010)

• I designed and contracted a developer to build an iPhone app that helps people remember names.
• Who's That is now available for download from the iTunes App Store.

Kosmix (now Walmart Labs) (2009)

• Kosmix was a site specializing in automatically creating Wikipedia-like destination pages for all topics
• I worked with Kosmix to develop a concept in the space of interest & news aggregation.

Billfloat (2009)

• Billfloat enables customers to get an extension on their overdue bills so as to avoid late fees and negative impacts to their credit
• I worked with Billfloat to create the first end-to-end version of their site, including payment flows from their utility partners.

Wize (2009)

• Wize is a site that helps consumers decide which products to purchase based on reviews left for those products
• I worked with another designer to redesign the end-to-end flow, from home page to product page.

• Designed faceted search concepts as well as alternative methods for gathering "Taste Input" for personalization

• Shopping.com is one of the leading shopping comparison sites
• Designed "visiontypes" to illustrate different strategic directions for the company to pursue

• blekko is a new information search engine that uses "slashtags" to refine search results
• Worked with the team to design the initial search results page variations

• GetJar is the world's largest independent mobile app store
• Redesigned the entire web site experience, from Home Page to Download App
• Work contributed to a 260% increase in app downloads over the previous year.
• View GetJar project details

• Hosted a panel at South by Southwest Interactive 2008 with four other speakers
• Excerpt: "A/B Testing' is the practice of directing web traffic to multiple alternative designs to determine which is optimal. This method raises significant questions regarding the role of a designer and the need for a traditional design approach when deciding which design is 'best.' Are we being cut out of the equation?"
• View video excerpt & audio transcript

• I co-taught a course at CHI 2006 and 2007 with Marti Hearst (of UC Berkeley) and Preston Smalley (my manager at eBay).
• Subject matter was faceted search
• CHI 2006 and CHI 2007 course details

• Began as an Associate UI Designer, departed as a Lead UI Designer
• Projects included:
• Registration Redesign
• Community Hub Redesign
• Want It Now
• eBay Express
• Finding Redesign
• User Experience Design Lead for Finding
• eBay Mobile
• "Dressing Room" concept

• Two internships with Microsoft while still in school
• First internship involved Meeting Workspaces: their creation, templates, and themes.
• Second internship, I worked on the Microsoft Picture Library application, determining how people could put images from that application into other applications like Word or PowerPoint.

While at Cal, I was involved in a number of interface design-related projects.

• Firewall was a class project I completed, and it was voted one of the top three projects of the class. It was a digital whiteboard command post for fire fighter incident commanders, theoretically using GPS and building blueprints to allow the incident commander to more effectively monitor and facilitate firefighters at the scene of a fire.
• NotePals was a graduate student a dissertation that I assisted with. It was a system that allowed document searching through use of property-based filtering. I helped re-design the web site's interface, performed user tests, and helped implement it by working on the front-end interface using HTML and JavaScript.
• My student poster, "Low-fidelity Prototyping for Multimodal Applications" was accepted at CHI 2002. It explores whether the benefits of low-fidelity prototyping be extended to applications that involve multiple input types (such as speech and gesture) and multiple devices (such as laptops and PDAs).