Web

I like to think of myself as “technologically-literate”. However, those closest to me have often called me a “tech geek” or “member of the internet community”.

While I’m not a complete expert on all technologies, I do feel that I posess a pretty good understanding and intuition of “how things work” when it comes to media and technology.

I have been working with the web since I was in junior high school (somewhere around 1995).

Over the years, I’ve always enjoyed being at the forefront of new technologies as they’re born. I like seeing them in their infancy, and watching and learning from them as they grow.

One thing I’ve learned is that the web is actually just a medium for other media. It brings text, audio, and video together to create an experience that is customizable by the user. The web allows users to choose the means and the source of their media consumption.

Another thing I’ve learned is that if you want users to use and re-use your interface, that interface ought to be designed in a way that invokes a feeling of delight in the user.

I’ve tried to incorporate that philosophy into the web projects I’ve been a part of. Here are some of those projects:

K.C. Fuzzy

My wife Katie Covington formed her own company, K.C. Fuzzy, to showcase her illustration work. When she said she wanted a website with an online store, I helped her with the setup of the e-commerce site, CSS, and basic online strategy. She designed the site, I coded all of the HTML/CSS layout, and also modified the Shopify Liquid layouts for the shopping cart portion of the site.

Beauty and the Belly

The Beauty and the Belly project was an ambitious endeavor between two mothers who were also photographers. The goal was to join together and form a company tailored to pregnant women, incorporating their photography and an online store that would sell products that pregnant women would enjoy.

I was hired as a graphic designer/web designer, to create the logo, identity and look of their individual photographer pages and also the online store.

Oury Grip

I began working with Oury Grip while I was in high school, as a web designer for their bicycle and motorcycle grip manufacturing company. By the time I had gotten to college, their website had been through a number of iterations, but finally I ended up going back to their original, circa 1980’s package design, which they still use to this day on the bags for their grips.

Eventually, I transferred stewardship of their website to another company and we went our separate ways, but the design is still mostly intact years later.