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I founded my startup, Dipity.com, because I was curious to see relationships of different events over time. I wanted to see if the British Invasion had anything to do with the war in Viet Nam, and if there were patterns to be seen in regards to the genocide currently happening in Darfur. Could timelines help?
Events, timelines, and their relationship to each other became the foundation for what grew to be a startup that had, at it's peak, 7 employees, millions of monthly page views, and lots of praise. I wanted all of a person's life (flickr, twitter, a blog, a bank account) to be fed into one place and ordered chronologically. From there, I wanted to be able to share these events with the world. (Similar to how Friend Feed and many others are doing).
I'm very proud to say that my name is on several patents, and that Dipity has outlived and out-classed most of our initial competitors, namely AOL's Circa Vie and a few others. While I didn't do any development, I was responsible for the core idea, all of the design, UI & UX, created the name, the logo, and was integral to raising much of the funding and get the product built.
I have stepped down from my position as Design Director and am currently working on my next startup. (A detailed look into my Dipity startup journey is forthcoming).
I'm still very passionate about timelines, though, and I'm definitely not finished with the 4th dimension. Stay tuned!
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Dipity.com / Dipity.com
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I was asked to work on the Ideas for Austin project with a group of other Austin technerds including Josh Dilworth, Naveed Lalani at IEEE, Jonas Lamis over at TechRanch, John Metcalf, Tom Serres at Piryx, and many others. The thought was to make a site using the UserVoice whitelabel backend where Austinites could post questions amd engage in discussions about the values in Austin.
Since Brewster McCracken's campaign decided to sponsor the site, it was suggested that we might want to mimick the look and feel of his site. I did some designs along those lines, but I really felt like the vibe should be *way* more upbeat and positive. I think we found a good balance that represents a positive future, as well as a decent tie-in to Brewster's Campaign. Let's hope it does some good!
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Verde Camp is a 1/2 acre of land in the South Congress area of Austin Texas. Carrie and I purchased the land and houses in 2006 and have been slowly fixing them up. We have been making eco-friendly decisions along the way and are very proud of the results.
This has been an interesting design challenge. These houses were originally built in the 1930's and have a unique character all their own. We wanted to bring that character out and use it. After 8 full months of replacing electrical, plumbing, adding central A/C and heat, we've opened up the houses as short-term vacation rentals..
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People Pad is an early stage Austin startup run by Troy Williams that attempts to wrangle the highly complex universe of public information online. The site allows people to backup their claims (for instance, someone's birthplace) and allow users to vote on the results.
I initially got involved with the project by doing the People Pad logo to help out a friend, and was excited to take on the UI / UE challenge of the project. The complexity and depth of the project as a semantic web pioneer proved a hefty challenge, but I've been very happy with the initial results.
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An online store, selling t-shirts and various other lifestyle products from a hand-picked group of vendors.
Brodeo is the brain-child of the Built By Robots crew.. and more will be written here soon.
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Brodeo / Brodeo.com
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Web Store using the Yahoo Store Interface
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Apples, PC's, Unix, Yahoo Store
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Texas Hunt Fish provides a site that attempts wrangle the $5 billion dollar hunting and fishing industry in Texas. The site encourages community, provides news and reviews, and connects outdoorsmen with guides, landowners and merchants.
BBR worked hard to unscramble the existing THF interface by breaking up the project into 3 main parts: UE flow overview, target audience analysis, and a UI / Graphic overhaul that would use a visual vocabulary that suits the Texas outdoorsman, who are generally less savvy online users.
One of the biggest challenges was to design towards an entirely new search system that would not be implemented until a year from the existing deadline. BBR solved the problem by providing UI that required only minor revisions when the new search is integrated.
The end result is a site that not only looks like a million bucks but is more user-oriented and easy to use.
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Texas Hunt Fish, LLC
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Site Redesign / UE & UI Analysis / Graphic Design. Full site redesign, including a UE analysis with flows, target audience overview, and a new Graphic vocabulary that meshes with the target audience and scales with future site revisions.
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Apple PowerMac Dual 2 Gigs, Adobe Illustrator CS2, Adobe Photoshop CS2, OmniGraffle, BBEdit 8
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What began as a lark between neighbors grew into one of the more fun social experiements I've been involved in. The Potrero Walk-ins was a collaboration between Carrie and I, David and Libby Silbmerman, Kathy Wheater & Pierre, Ford Minton, Robin Anderson, Mark and Nicole Fein and many others.
The idea was to try and recreate a drive-in movies vibe right in the middle of San Francisco. (The nearest drive-in in Millbrae had recently shut down). We offered free popcorn and attracted all kinds of people from all over. A 'Best of' Award was bestowed on us for 'Best place to snuggle under the stars with your sweety' from the SF Guardian. After five years, the only thing that stopped it was Carrie and I moving back to Austin. But even then a dedicated base of fans kept it going for another year. It was a really great time and a great social experiment.
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Potrero Hill Walk-In Movies / WalkInMovies.com
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Apple PowerMac Dual 2 Gigs, Adobe Illustrator CS2, Adobe Photoshop CS2, OmniGraffle, BBEdit 8