M–1 is a Thai Boxing gym in Honolulu which was looking for a clean, intelligent brand that appealed to the competitive fighter. The design also had to be welcoming to casual practitioners who wish to learn martial arts for personal fulfillment.
Foodjiva (jee–vuh) was a startup company that partnered with local restaurants to provide online food ordering and delivery.
Yahoo! Entertainment encompassed a variety of TV and Industry-related products for the Yahoo! network. I worked on a Celebrity Blogs product, as well as their Fall TV Preview television guide.
Pick‘em and survival style games are an integral part of Yahoo! Sports‘ suite of Fantasy games. I worked on a visual update to this family of games that included a design system for the game mastheads as well as visual and interaction style guides for gameplay.
For the 2010 World Cup, we created a Pick‘em game that was part of our first endeavor in creating a global game. The game was offered in 10 different countries and the design had to work in multiple languages including double-byte Asian characters.
Drafting the players for each season‘s fantasy team is a fun and social activity. In 2010, we decided to add Auction style drafting to our games. The challenge was fitting a large amount of interface for researching, choosing players, bidding, and chatting in an intuitive layout. The app was created in Flex in-house and I leveraged animation as much as possible to create an engaging, game-like experience.
In an effort to better organize and present Yahoo! Sports‘ video content we designed the Media Hub in 2009. The goal was to create a theater-like experience where the user could smoothly navigate across categories in-line without disrupting a currently playing video.
In 2008, Yahoo! Sports worked with the UFC to serve as its online provider for their pay-per-view fights. They needed a product that showed the event information, preview video, the live event, and archived video of the fights afterwards. This one-pager was designed to handle all of those states by seamlessly changing according to event status.
The Troubadour is an iconic music venue located on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood. We helped them leverage a content management system to handle what was previously a laborious process of updating performance schedules and artists.