Here’s some cool stuff I have made or done:

Front page, Haas School of Business

In the months before my contract as a student employee ran out, the business school at Berkeley embarked on a redesign of their home page. I was invited to code it based on a design by Cuttriss & Hambleton, and the final result launched a few weeks after I had to leave. The site uses HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, and social media integration.

iOS Wireframing: “The Review”

An example of a wireframed iOS app for organizing my book reviews. Built in OmniGraffle and Keynote.

PlayPen: Collaborative Floor Planning

As part of a group project, I created a Keynote presentation for this web app concept that won over an industry panel at an iSchool design expo. “PlayPen” was designed as a sort of Google Docs for apartments, a site where future roommates could collaboratively decide where their furniture was going to go. Our team developed sketches, feature sets, and prototypes of PlayPen over several months, soliciting user feedback at every step.

Redesign for Cameron Catering

In my first quarter at the UW iSchool, I redesigned this website for a local catering company. I rewrote the copy, converted the site from Wordpress to static HTML5, added Facebook integration, and developed a new contact form (using Wufoo) that’s gotten great feedback and significantly increased conversions.

“A Man in Time of War”: How Colonial Boys Became American Men, 1765—1775

This was my senior thesis for the history department at Berkeley. It’s an exploration of how boys and young men experienced political radicalism in the decade before the Revolutionary War. Generally speaking I argue that terms like “Sons of Liberty” have a literal basis, and that political agency and intelligence do not begin at voting age. A brief sample is available here. I’m selling it for $3 on the Amazon Kindle store—skip today’s latte and help me pay for grad school!

American Orpheus: Bob Dylan

As an undergrad at Berkeley, I developed this class on the life and work of Bob Dylan. I taught it to about 25 people in the first half of 2011. A collection of my Keynote slides is available here.

iSchool Research with Megan Finn

I helped Berkeley PhD student Meg Finn with her research on 19th-century communications practices in the context of natural disaster, focusing on the San Francisco Bay Area in 1868. This involved reading a lot of old newspapers and building a database of relevant texts. On my end, the project led to this funny blog post and this paper about the Daily Alta California.