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ETAK/SONY Navigator (design)
vivid developed the system interface for this in-car CD-ROM-based navigation product. ETAK contracted vivid to design and document the interface standards to SONY's latest after-market navigator with Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) sensor and color active-matrix...
Finding Your Voice CD-ROM Prototype (design)
Finding Your Voice is a prototype for a product designed to help junior high school students learn to tell stories. In particular, it was designed to help them develop better ways of expressing themselves and telling their personal stories. Although it was not...
Voices of the 30s CD-ROM (design and production)
Voices of the 30s is a unique CD-ROM. It is an educational database and curriculum for high-school English or History classes about Western expansion, the Depression, and the Dust Bowl in the United States in the 1930s. It is in part, a set of activities, a living...
Understanding Computers CD-ROM (design and production)
The Understanding Computers CD-ROM is an electronic book designed to convey the same messages and content that the print version does, but with the added dimensions provided by of electronic and interactive media. While it remains "bookish," it uses interactive tools...
Digital Restaurant Guide application (design)
This guide to over 2000 restaurants in San Francisco and surroundings was developed especially for PowerBooks. Each restaurant is located by its geographic coordinates on the many maps. The product allows users to search for restaurants in a variety of different ways,...
Sexual Pleasures CD-ROMs (design)
Sexual Pleasures is a series of four CD-ROMs designed to present the subject of sex and sexuality in a clear, healthy, contemporary, and beautiful experience. Readers can explore issues, record their thoughts in a diary, and reflect on their feelings. The material is...
MBA in Design Strategy Website (design)
I started the MBA in Design Strategy in 2007 and one of the first things we did was launch an external website to inform people of the new degree. It included a lot of resources, with references to related degrees, and a Design Strategy Market Index. The site is still...
Making Meaning Website (design)
In 2006, I designed this website to accompany the book that Steve Diller and I wrote, Making Meaning. It’s still live today.
Dictionary of Sustainable Management (design and production)
The Dictionary of Sustainable Management is an evolving dictionary for business leaders and students of sustainability and business-related terms. It is a project of the Presidio Graduate School. The purpose of this effort is to help people better understand how...
Reveal (concept, design, and development)
This was my thesis project from business school. It was something I had been thinking about for awhile but in 2006, I got the opportunity to focus on it as both a design solution and a business. The Reveal rating system creates a trusted, easy-to-use rating for...