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Graphic arts has been a passion of mine and often I’ve created art for self promotion. Compositing photos that follow a sketch is a great skill and can be done quickly if you maintain assets such as templates, brushes, and Photoshop actions. My designs are inspired by art history’s great discoveries such as chiaroscuro, grids, perspective, balance, proportion, etc.
WSJ Photography
The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City. The Journal, along with its Asian and European editions, is published six days a week by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp.
Product and still life photography was one of the roles at the digital imaging lab at The Wall Street Journal. Lighting was used in a way to enhance the appearance of the product.
WSJ Layouts / Infographics
The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City. The Journal, along with its Asian and European editions, is published six days a week by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp.
Infographics are visual presentations of information that use the elements of design to display content. Infographics express complex messages to viewers in a way that enhances their comprehension. Much like infographics, layouts can also enhance comprehension of content. It generally involves organizational principles of composition to achieve specific communication objectives.
WSJ Photo Retouching
The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City. The Journal, along with its Asian and European editions, is published six days a week by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp.
Daily deadlines at The Wall Street Journal improved pace and skill of digital imaging specialists. Automating actions, creating brushes, and templates in Adobe Photoshop helped speed up and make designs more efficient.
WSJ Illustrations
The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City. The Journal, along with its Asian and European editions, is published six days a week by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp.
Secondary task but most rewarding was to create illustrations for the newspaper and online. Art directors would ask for a particular design that was roughly sketched or photo composed and it was up to the digital imaging specialist to execute the design.
Interactive Flash Designs
Publicis Groupe is a French multinational advertising and public relations company, and is the oldest and one of the largest marketing and communications companies in the world, by revenue, headquartered in Paris.
Interactive designers at Publicis’ Mundocom worked on creating or modifying flash banners using branding art. Tracking times of each animation was important to be controlled.
WSJ Weekend Cover Illustration
The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City. The Journal, along with its Asian and European editions, is published six days a week by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp.
Weekend section of The Wall Street Journal allowed the most creativity where the entire page was dedicated to an illustration or infographic to the main story. Similar to illustrations, the art director would sketch or compose a design and the imaging specialist would complete the finish design. Most times copy would start on this page and the need for clever text space was needed.
Verizon Vendor Management Wireframe
Verizon is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate and a corporate component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Verizon is the largest wireless communications service provider in the US and is also a large telecommunications company that was one of the seven ‘Baby Bells’ that was formed following a lawsuit involving AT&T and the US Department of Justice.
Vendor Management project was to equip 3rd party partners with an app that would connect with internal Verizon software. Wireframes would imitate as close as possible UI library components and follow brand guidelines.
Verizon Global UUI 2.0
Verizon is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate and a corporate component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Verizon is the largest wireless communications service provider in the US and is also a large telecommunications company that was one of the seven ‘Baby Bells’ that was formed following a lawsuit involving AT&T and the US Department of Justice.
The Global CoFEE (Converged Front End Engine) UUI 2.0 project was designed to connect 29+ applications into one standard interface for the network engineering side. This involved many lead engineers in Verizon to make compromises in order to suit one common interface and use familiar methods to completing tasks.
Branding
GRM UI Designs
GRM Document Management provides records management solutions for organizations like Xerox, JetBlue, Children’s Hospital of LA, and City & County of San Francisco.
GRM managed sister company Mana Contemporary and Evolve Motorcycles. When in need lead designers are allocated to the sister companies to brand and market their services. In all designs, a grid was applied and proportions were taken into account based on the device. Sticking to a branding style was essential for quick recognition and remembrance.
Verizon Optix Application
Verizon is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate and a corporate component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Verizon is the largest wireless communications service provider in the US and is also a large telecommunications company that was one of the seven ‘Baby Bells’ that was formed following a lawsuit involving AT&T and the US Department of Justice.
Verizon’s Optix software is used by customer support or engineers to identify problems within a FIOS connection for a home or office. This project joined both lead network engineers and users to use machine learning tool. Based on the initial system of checks the software could identify if it was a common problem or a complex one where the two panels would open up. To make the interface easier to use, a system of icons were created. The larger icon was the device or network and the smaller icon on the lower right was the action.
Verizon Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality
Verizon is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate and a corporate component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Verizon is the largest wireless communications service provider in the US and is also a large telecommunications company that was one of the seven ‘Baby Bells’ that was formed following a lawsuit involving AT&T and the US Department of Justice.
Under the direction of the executive director, Verizon wanted a way to use latest technology to equip technicians with augmented reality and virtual reality devices. It was showcased in a technology event within Verizon’s Basking Ridge location. The idea was to show locations of manholes, poles, terminals, etc within standing range. If those items are obstructed from view such as in the case of snow, technicians will still be able to easily identify the correct location of the item.
Verizon’s Canvas Hackathon 2020
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Canvas is Verizon’s enterprise design system and compliance team. In May 2020, Canvas hosted their first hackathon which had 27 competing teams. One UX designer lead each team with 3-4 full stack developers. The hackathon judges were looking for a new sign in screen for their Canvas application.
I lead Team Mosaic and were runners up in the event. The image above is a GIF of the functional prototype. I led the team using quick design thinking (Stanford Model) and each person contributed in ideation.
Verizon CoFEE Engineering Tasking Infrastructure
Tasking Infrastructure
Verizon SPM Dashboard
Verizon SPM Dashboard
Case study: Verizon Site and Project Management Dashboard