User Experience

Creating a great user experience empowers users, giving them the ability and confidence to quickly succeed in completing software or hardware-related tasks. Bigger Ideas does this by studying users to understand their emotions, context, and motivations. Motivations shape behaviors. From this actionable end-user research, I create high-quality effective interaction designs and visual elements that make your products and websites efficient and effective. Bigger Ideas can also provide custom training to promote deeper understanding of task and ready adoption of your product.

Recent Work in Interaction Design

GlobalScholar Web Application

Online Education, GlobalScholar

Project: Web Application
Item Bank Design
(in development, Q1 2009)


The GlobalScholar Item Bank is a repository for accessing and reviewing academic questions. This framework allows an Administrator or Curriculum Developer to choose items for test development based on psychometric characteristics of the items.
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Recent Work in Web Design

GlobalScholar Web Application
Original Website: http://www.offc.org/

Overlake Fly Fishing Club

Project: Web Design,
(in development)


Bigger Ideas is producing a website for the Overlake Fly Fishing Club, a Seattle-area community that members use to share fishing experiences and conservation knowledge, and to plan outings. The Website design reflects club goals and mission, promotes information sharing, and is easy to navigate. I am expanding the existing information-only site into an interactive community.
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