(UI, UX, Web, Graphic, Game, Print) Designer, Front-end Developer, Photographer...
I am a Web, UI, UX, and graphic designer with extensive experience in designing Internet and intranet websites. My broad knowledge base includes science, medicine, technology, entertainment, and education allowing me to work effectively in many industries. Strengths include design, writing, and analysis.
Thank you for everything. I love you. I can't recommend you enough. - Ivy G.
If your website or app is not useful, why bother? I can create an experience from first-sketch to release.
If your customer can't use your website, how can they buy your product? I am experienced with Section 508 and WCAG 2.0 standards.
The world is smaller than ever, which makes your market larger than ever. I18n. I get it.
From business cards to tee-shirts to card games, I have done them all.
HTML, CSS, Sass, Less, Photoshop, Illustrator, Audio, Video. Been there. Done that. Designed the tee-shirt.
Product photography for work. Infrared photography for fun. People photography for both.
Clint is a pleasure to work with. He has excellent communication skills and has a solid knowledge of UI/UX design techniques and tools. His CSS and HTML are very clean and reusable. He is dedicated to delivering high quality work. - Tara B.
Coursework in Digital Media
Bachelor of Science, Economics;
Emphases in Physics and Performing Arts
A wide range of freelance web and graphic design projects. Designed and redesigned websites for ease of use, improved accessibility, and standards-compliance. Optimized text for search engines (SEO). Converted sites to CMS. Added video. Created marketing collateral. Designed logos and tee-shirts. Wrote and edited copy.
We have received MANY complements of the site you created and have been very pleased. - Randy F.
"SFFX was a f***ing masterpiece. Yes, it has issues, but jeebus, man. So. Many. Moving. Parts. And you made them all move together. It even breaks elegantly." - Susan S.
In addition to all of the "real" web work, I work on a lot of projects simply for my own amusement. I get an idea and I have to get it out of my head. Some people have normal hobbies. I am not one of those people. Since they're primarily for me, they range from the fully developed and professional to humorous throw-aways. One thing most of them have in common is the ability to get further and further in depth on a subject.
Work should be fun. At CoStar, when the spokesman is Jeff Goldblum, and you have an amazing high-tech coffee machine... you design a new homescreen for the coffee machine and a matching cup.
What do you do when you want to learn a bit about Tarot but you don't like the decks you're finding because they're either too "pretty" or just kind of cheesy? You design your own minimalist deck. And then start building a simple JS script to auto-generate spreads. And then create matching flash cards.
Ideas for cards? Check. Card design? Check. Box design? Check. Learning about GS1 and UPC codes, Amazon marketplace, state tax laws, copyright law, and more? Check. Cease and Desist Letter from Cards Against Humanity... Check.
I don't know about other people, but when my brain wanders late at night, I find myself thinking about Spoon Theory and geeky dragons playing "Houses and Humans." Then, what if I combined those ideas in a card game about dealing with depression?
Someone created a web game about a misguided AI turns the universe into paperclips. But the UI was boring. I fixed that.
Job searching sucks. Writing resumes sucks. Editing your own resume is even worse. What can you do about it? Have a resume party.
I read a lot of fiction and some of my favorite series mentioned people and places that could use tee shirts. A fictional folk band of Celtic witches with detailed but scattered descriptions. Figuring out the date they played Katie's Pub in the book wasn't clear. Unless you look at it as a puzzle. Plus, they came through Austin on my Birthday. (So many layers figured out.)
Speaking of Katie's Pub, it needed a shirt and some pint glasses. And though the date didn't really work with the book, I set the "Established" date to when my friend Katie was born and gave her a set of the glasses.
A fictional diner and new age gift shop? Sounds like it needs a 1950's style logo.
What if the classic "Le Chat Noir" poster had been designed with Edwin Schrödinger in mind?
Why see 50 Shades of Gray when you can have 15 Pounds of Blue? (He's a great cat, but used to be a bit of a chonk.)
Took an infrared photo of a woman on her phone at a bus stop when I went to Santa Fe on one of my road trips. I then went through and tinted each area with a single color. Turning it into a phone case? It had to happen.
Sometimes really silly statements need a silly response. Here you go.
Since some guys send unsolicited photos that they shouldn't, maybe this can help them with their issues.
In a random Facebook group someone posted a photo of their cat on their partner's lap. They mentioned that it kind of looked like the cat reaching out like Adam from "The Creation of Man." I thought they had a good point.
Someone posted that Pete Buttigieg looked like he could be the son of "The Smoking Man" from X-Files. They were right. And yes, I did write a page of the novel.
A friend of mine is a fan of all things Texas and is also deeply involved in politics. Silly but cute.
"Lorem ipsum" is the standard placeholder text for designers and gets used everywhere, but it can be fun to be a little different. "Bacon Ipsum" gives you the option to use a mix of various meat products — with or without real lorem ipsum mixed-in — as placeholders. That's cool, but what if you're single? What if you went through on various dating sites, grabbed the self-summary sections, and randomized the sentences? And suddenly datingipsum.com pops into existence.
When you've designed everything else and realize that you've lived in Austin for over 20 years, it's time to design a tattoo. The old alchemical symbols for the four elements symbolize balance and the different natures of different things. Okay, they're just cool.
After getting an alchemy tattoo, you start reading more on the subject. And you started college as a physics major and are fascinated by Science History. And wonder how you would combine the old and new. Random elements and compounds? Apothecary herbs? Lightning encased in acrylic? Copy of the Antikythera mechanism and the oldest known star map? And a miniature Tesla coil... you have to have that.
We've all seen the "Approach to UX Design Process" charts with the usual. That's a given.
As someone who's been working on the web since before UI and UX Designers were posted job titles, I have a number of shorthand phrases that I constantly refer to while designing:
...in making a good website is to not make a bad one. If you're revamping a site, first fix the things that don't work, otherwise you're wasting a lot of time and effort. Standardize the filenames and classes, determine the focus, check spelling, and clean it up.
"What Would Wells Fargo Do?" Another way of saying "Don't Reinvent The Wheel." While working on a financial site, I found that Wells Fargo had already done most of what I was trying to do. So, I used them and similar sites to make sure that I didn't miss anything while creating user stories and building out designs.
...but where's the "buy" button?
It's 2019 and people are still hiding buy buttons and navigation. It's time to
stop. Function > Form, however both Function && Form are mandatory.
..."Remove the stone" and KISS. Keep it simple and get rid of anything extraneous. You don't go to websites to admire the design (well, maybe you and I do, but...) you go to accomplish something. Get out of the way and let the customer do what they're trying to do. Websites should be almost invisible except for a random thought of, "I wish all sites were that easy to use."
...it's about what the customer wants. Sure, your website is a great tool for promotions, but people go to a website for their purposes, not yours. If I can't find the address or hours on a coffee shop's website, it's a failure. This xkcd is simultaneously one of the funniest, saddest, and most accurate things on the web.
This is truly what my job is. I'm not concerned about job titles — I've had "Senior" in front of my title on-and-off for twenty years. I do what I can to facilitate projects getting done — mine first, but if I can teach, train, help, provide advice, or be a sympathetic ear for someone else it will help people and thereby, the company.
"By the way, I keep a close eye on the [Pet Savers] website... and I tell you it is just awesome!" - Cheri R.