tototoben

mastery

A web application to create and serve online learning materials.

Designed and built by yours truly. The starting point was in the heads of two domain experts who made a rudimentary prototype, and I took it from there. Most design decisions and feedback cycle came through discussions with one of the co-conspirators who's a history teacher.

At one point we got more serious with it and acquired a bit of funding, for which there was a need for a comprehensive ~1 year long roadmap. The assembly of it fell upon me, and so I drew it out with wide strokes and have now learned in more detail the value of an iterative process which includes direction from the humans we aim to help.

We did have an avenue of molding the solution: a Facebook group of teachers that were using our app in their work and posted issues and thoughts relating to their use. It wasn't quite enough though to have a significant effect in the larger scheme.

cybexer

Various web applications in the cyber-security domain

I was one of the full-stack engineers for about two bigger software projects. One essentially a quiz-type modular learning system to provide organizational insight about the knowledge workers have in certain topics. The other was a cyber-security exercise platform to carry out and provide and overview to said exercises.

Had to provide implementations to feature requests and such and be a thinking head in the process of figuring out how to make things work. Also had to do a little bit of math with the d3.js library.

We worked in sprints of one or two weeks, scoping our work with the product owner and other developers and generally having a merry time.

doodles

I hope these provide some curiosity and insight into my minds eye.

Doodling and information architecture (heh) have been a constant companion for me, especially in learning contexts. I've quite enjoyed trying to lay things out in a way that's comprehensible, digestible, interesting.

There's not much in the way of that structuring and practical assembly of data in the following examples, but here's what I've gathered up anyway.

tshirt

Made some T-shirts for the bachelor party of my mate.

We wanted something to form a common fabric between the bunch that we had gathered for the bachelor, so I proposed some shirts with his favoured book trilogy as a theme. On I went with sketching out the characters that would fit the wearers (sorry Gimli, you are short but that's okay). Also, the word-bending of the character quotes was enjoyable. In a larger sense, I like this sort of succint word-play and expression which I think might aid in any textually communicative aspects of design.

dnd

Notes and scenes for a Dungeons & Dragons campaign.

Visual storytelling tickles me well. Some of my more liked sessions were those where I made time to take in the scenery and action and give it some life.

extra credit

Hope the best for all candidates (most of all me)!