Products

Before and After

A little usability input can have dramatic results. . .

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Manufacturing Maintenance Application:

click thumbnail to view	Before: This is a project I became involved with late in development. The screen shown here was designed for manufacturing maintenance personnel to view system status. I stepped in with Usability resources to improve on the existing UI under time and technology constraints.
click thumbnail to view	After: An interaction designer and I ran through 4 iterations using rapid prototyping tools, heuristic analysis, and user-centered design methodologies. We mapped our solutions to next-generation company strategies and here's what we accomplished working with the development team. Fortune 500 companies ranked this product highest in usability against the competition.

International E-Commerce Application:

click thumbnail to view	Before: A Taiwan based company wanted to start marketing their motorized bicycles to the US. I worked on this DePaul project with Amy Tse. Amy’s part of the team was on the Information Services (developer) side. My part of the team worked on the Human Computer Interaction (usability, research) side. Together we collaborated on the look and feel based on our areas of expertise.
click thumbnail to view	After: We completely reorganized and updated the site design to suit the American market. Working with bike shop owners helped us categorize product information and streamline workflows. Follow this link to view more of the site: http://huey.cs.depaul.edu:8090/yellow3/public_html/proRot/index.htm

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Product Marketing Material

Integrated Maintenance Product (274KB) Integrated Design Product (2.5MB)

Here is some presales marketing material for a couple of products I have impacted. These files are in a zipped Adobe PDF format. Click on the link to download.

MilwauCHI

Human-Computer Interaction Practitioners' Professional Standards

Thanks to inspiration from The Independent Writers of Chicago, I'm in the midst of developing a professional standards document for entrepreneurial HCI engineers. I've found this to be valuable (typically used in a proposals) for setting expectations and good communication at the outset of any independent work. The local CHI group is working with me to provide this tool to members. It's a work in progress, so any feedback or input would be much appreciated. . .

Academic Technology Development

http://www.itd.depaul.edu/website/pages/home/Wheregoing/

Follow this link for an overview of the type projects I was involved with at ATD (now called ITD). Click "About Us" to get more information on the type of services this interdisciplinary team provides.

http://smithers.atd.depaul.edu/faculty/ddewey/

Here is an educational product example. Clicking around in the left frame allows you to look through various content areas. I integrated windshield surveys, which are basically 2-4 minute video captures of places in the Chicago area. The idea here was to free up class time spent on costly and time consuming field-trips by delivering these geographic examples over the network or Internet.