industrial-strength design
Clip from the tinyhut download site.Problem: Developer needs a quick-loading, convenient, customizable home page that can be accessed both from his own workstation and public computers. Existing solutions, however, are either sparse and difficult to customize or ad-heavy and bloated with extraneous features.

Solution: Build tinyhut, which presents both a lightweight front page and an authentication-protected, dynamic version of the same. Combine AJAX best practices with RESTful design to create an intuitive user interface and a powerful API. Release source code under an MIT license for anyone to download, tinker with and reincorporate.

Clip from the HauteLook site.Problem: Upscale garment outlet provider has strong hook and excellent products, but always-under-construction static site clashes with brand image.

Solution: Bring modern UI practices to bear within a new visual identity that broadcasts class and taste. Write standards-first code for a future-proof site that will keep development costs low.

Clip from the Citi Futures Clearing information site.Problem: Public face of a powerful clearing house is static and outdated, yet high-security IT practices in the financial world often prevent use of the newest browser technology.

Solution: Combine valid, hack-free HTML, cascading stylesheets and highly optimized scripting for a new interactive experience that loads quickly and displays consistently in any environment.

Clip from the Cook's Illustrated site.Problem: High-profile cooking magazine offers a strong mix of free and subscriber content online, but style of presentation lags behind changes to the print edition.

Solution: Work with top designers to create and implement a new visual identity that references print stylesheets while providing a lightweight, interactive interface that guides readers quickly to the content they want. Deliver a human-readable combination of CSS and HTML templates to the client for worry-free, sitewide implementation.

Clip from the Casio Exilim High Speed product information site.Problem: New line of high-speed digital cameras defies existing categories, presenting an entirely new high-end consumer niche.

Solution: Build a combined marketing / product information site that combines inset content with persistent Flash video* for maximum user navigability and SEO. Integrate with existing vendor API for a customized store locator interface. Use Ajax best practices to allow simple deep linking while ensuring browser-blind accessibility.

* Flash content created by Hoon Choi.

Clip from the White + Warren web store.Problem: Upscale garment producers need to capitalize on growing web audience, but existing site is a nightmare of ad-hoc code built on top of outdated, minimalist shopping cart software.

Solution: Build a completely new site based on X-Cart commerce system. Separate presentation from content using the powerful CSS-based skinning system, and create new modules to answer client's need for custom functionality. Integrate with separate image hosting and inventory management solutions via Flash and SFTP.

Valid XHTML 1.0
Valid CSS 2.0