REMIX09 Korea

I came across the REMIX09 Korea site today, and thought it was really interesting how they took the original MIX09 stylesheet and site and made a new site that fits the their needs but still holds true to the original brand.

Dec 01, 2009 | Have your say »

SPLAB Launched

David Sherwin of Frog Design and I worked together to put together this website for SPLAB, a Seattle-based non-profit focused on spoken-word poetry. The site is built on Wordpress and was designed and developed in a week.

Visit SPLAB Now

Nov 03, 2009 | Have your say »

New Homepage

For way too long I’ve had a simple redirect from thunderkick.us to thunderkick.us/blog, as the blog was really the only thing I was updating at all.  Over the last few weeks I’ve spent some time, though, putting together a new homepage that aggregates some of the various content found in the blog, and surfaces it [...]

Jun 08, 2009 | Comments Off

Nice things from zdnet

I thought this write up about the online experience for MIX09 was particularly flattering.

Microsoft are doing a terrific job of demonstrating how to run a conference with their Mix09 conference …
A live feed of keynote content – speakers and what appears on the projection screens – is right there on the front page along [...]

Apr 10, 2009 | Comments Off

MIX Online on istartedsomething.com

Big thanks to Long Zheng for the great write-up on the MIX Online re-launch.  He brings up a great point about the site:
In fact what’s pretty amazing is that the “MIX Online” site is validated 100% XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant. That’s something worth noting for a Microsoft site.

My fellow Designer/UXE, Nishant Kothary, really drove [...]

Oct 23, 2008 | Comments Off

<3 your "8-bit love format"

Thanks to Sean at Idea Kitchen for the great write up on MIX Online and the MIX09 Conference site.

I really like the new format, with labs being the playground for code.  And from the look of it it looks like they will be updated with fresh content.  They’ve started off with Oomph, a lab [...]

Oct 22, 2008 | Comments Off

Microformats

I’ve started work on Microformats here at work in D&PE (@ Microsoft).  With the rest of my team, Karsten Januszewski and I are looking to build prototype examples of Microformats as well as develop plug-ins, software, and the like to help foster the adoption of Microformats.
I wasn’t familiar with Microformats until recently.  As a quick [...]

Jun 27, 2008 | Comments Off

New Non-Profit Site

Be sure to check out the newly-redesigned-by-me JustCauz.org site.  
The Just Cauz Foundation raises money and awareness for local non-profits through social events that are aimed at Seattle’s young professionals. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible for young people in Seattle to give back to their community, while appreciating the time [...]

Mar 25, 2008 | Comments Off

Uberdemo (MSFT Internal) released

So, yes, this is an internal-to-Microsoft only site, but I figured I’d at least post a screenshot.  My main task at work is to design and develop demonstrations used in conferences, to work with partners, etc … to demonstrate next-generation technologies such as Silverlight, Expression Blend, WPF, XAML, and the like.  My team has developed [...]

Oct 26, 2007 | Comments Off

Keep It Simple, Stupid! | Smashing Magazine

The Mix07 site that I designed has been picked up as one of the top 50 sites of 2006 designed using CSS. Yay for me.
Link to Keep It Simple, Stupid! | Smashing Magazine

Mar 28, 2007 | Comments Off