Shane Becker

While we talk about avoiding silos, I'm the front end silo. I clean up non-semantic markup, inline CSS and <center> tags. I ponder whether to use <dl> or a two column table, a line chart or a bar chart. I tear apart table based layouts and superfluous <divs>.

I helped launch and maintain the company weblog. I translate static Photoshop mockups into real live HTML/CSS and (depending on the case) Ruby on Rails ERB. I cut away at interface designs with Occam's Razor.

I designed, marked up and styled an internal dashboard that we use to watch high level important numbers. I conduct A/B test on different interface designs. Where I can I slide microformats into the codebase.

RubySpec Continuous Integration Dashboard

Ryan Davis and Evan Phoenix asked me to bang out a dashboard design plus the HTML/CSS to illustrate high level progress of the Rubinius (and later MRI and JRuby) builds on different platforms. Ryan and I iterated really quickly over a few permutations. The evolution is below in the order that it transpired.

Capes & Tights

This is a project in development still, nights and weekends style. It's goal is to be an ultra stripped down Point of Sale and Inventory / Customer tracking application tuned specifically for comic shops.

Seattle.rb

I've been going to Seattle Ruby Brigade meetings for a few years. I have started working with some of the other rubyists on 'marketing' kinds of things for various ruby projects.

Seattle.rb logo

The first thing I did for Seattle.rb was to cleanup and stylize the logo. The first thumbnail below is the old logo, all the rest are my redesigns. There are multiple versions for various use cases. Some one color, some with a gradient. With word mark, without. Some are horizontal, some more square-ish.

Contact : Ryan Davis

Seattle.rb Website

The design goal was to highlight three things important to the group: the people involved, the regular meetings and the projects made by the people involved. Secondarily, my aim was to reduce the complexity of the data by using one column and one page. Less clicking about. This project is still in development. The first thumbnail is the old website, that will be replaced shortly with this redesign.

Contact : Ryan Davis

Heckle

I commissioned an illustration and worked as Art Director on this logo. The vectorization was also done by me.

Contact : Ryan Davis

Mechanzie

I cleaned an old illustration and repurposed it for this logo. I added the typography.

Contact : Aaron Patterson

Rubinius

I designed the main project logo. I designed and coded up the initial Rubinius homepage (black background). While at RailsConf 2008 in Portland I whipped up a new homepage (white background) to replace the older one. For the website version of the logo, I art directed a friend converting my 2D flat version into a shiny 3D version.

Contact : Evan Phoenix 206-992-3061

ZineDistro

I did nearly all the work on this projects, excluding content. I designed it, wrote all the xhtml and css and a good deal for ruby/rails code. The rest of the ruby/rails code was written by my friend, Eli Duke. The site is currently down while I do the great re-write and update it to the new style Rails techniques.

Contact : Eli Duke 812-391-0173

ListYourList

The arrangement on this was the opposite of ZineDistro. Eli did the bulk of the work, I did smaller pieces of xhtml/css and ruby/rails. In Summer 2008, we rebuilt this from the ground up using all the new the new tricks and techniques that we had picked up in the 3 years since its inception.

Contact : Eli Duke 812-391-0173

White Raven is the company of Marvin Schlaak, my previous creative director at Arcadus. I've contracted with him on and off for several years. Work has included Flash development, Interface design, PHP scripting and xhtml and css devlopment.

Examples of our work together include: Cobb County Energy, Hestia Custom Homes and Griffiti.

I worked between the designers and the programmers. We experimented with Flash as a replacement for the front-end for WisdomTool's application. I built prototypes of different pieces in the application. I was also a part of a small team who adventured on redesigning the front-end interface of their application top to bottom.

A few months later, the dot com bubble popped. 30 of us were laid off.

I was the across-the-board designer. I was responsible for the website design, collateral design and Flash rapid application development.

While I was there IIPI was making location based applications for mobile devices. I would make Flash based mockups of what the application could be down the road.

Flash interactive design on external and in-house projects including rebranding public relaunch and internal sales demo tool. Client branding design. I was a part of Plaid's rebranding and Mac of All Trades' rebranding.

Both of these have, of course, since overhauled their sites, but the brand is still based on the work we did. A couple years after I left, Arcadus merged with another company then shortly later went out of business. Thus, no website.