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Portfolio work product sample – SPATS Project report.

October 3, 2016 by SteveW94103

Portfolio work product sample – SPATS Project report.

I should do a video review of this project and link to here . . .

Anywho here’s the link to the pdf of the project report.

spats-2013-pass-off-documentation_v2-after-assignment-for-portfolio.

and heres a link to the branding and UI Architecture and code standards report

inside-sfmta-com-2013-html5-code-prototype-and-branding

 

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Portfolio Map and all links. . .

October 3, 2016 by SteveW94103

Portfolio Map and all links. . .

This is just a convenient reference for my portfolio for job interview purposes. If you’re an employer, please brows my reference collection as long as you want to get to know me and all my talents.

Portfolio work product sample – SPATS Project report.

  • Best Code work HTML5, CSS3, Javascript example in my portfolio. a collection of open source widgets and template modifications for the complete UI needs of a business. http://stevewhetstone.com/clients/SFDPW-RHT/prototype/index.html
    • which is based off an affordable template I used as a base before customizing. I don’t believe in coding thousands of widgets and integrating everything. I believe in buying a template with dozens of pages already coded and then the bulk of the CSS and javascript and layout is done for one low price at a great quality.  Here’s a good one for any company or work I do . .. https://wrapbootstrap.com/theme/inspinia-responsive-admin-theme-WB0R5L90S  I just want to copy that work, not re-invent it.  So if you look at the template it’s got every kind of widget and graph and flow and layout you could need for a business, and it’s like $49 for non-exclusive license and then I customize it for the client with a logo and then use it in mockups.  the live preview feature of these bootstrap wrap templates works great in screen shots for quickly designing a cut and past picture layout of a new application proposal.  Like this one. . . (link to the one I did for SFMTA find that link). . .I review this in video at “What does it mean to be a UX designer’. https://youtu.be/ZaCeNjfNP6I
    • What does it mean to be a UX designer.This is what it means to me. Some rambling review of my last 2 projects. not polished, and just the quality of impromptu conversation that might come up on a day at the office. Maybe I’ll replace this with something more polished. but for right now maybe you want to see the project report in an improvised communication format to judge my communication ad lib abilities?
    • The Hippo mockup was done as a personal project on my time at home since it didn’t pass the MAYA principle and couldn’t go into production. I wanted a design something beautiful that exceeded the limits imposed by the support feasibility organizational concerns for the project. My dream prototype form that I had to design for pure fun and exploration at home, uses too many .js libraries and includes functionality and UX improvements that the organization wasn’t ready to support on this project after I left. In addition to a a large number of .js libraries it requires it included a complete Administration desktop widget template system CSS and bootstrap wrap templates.  Some of the font symbol icons don’t work well without an http: server and there was no tech support or permitting process for adding giving me access as a consultant to their HTTP server just for showing my demo’s to the stakeholders.  So I ran The HIPPO prototype off my own equipment using my preferred local MAMP server. I worked on the HIPPO example for about a month on my own time at home and then showed it to  my boss and then sold it to him as an upsel proposal in addition to the more limited design I had produced for use in production.  Some of the research and design concepts were immediately used in production from my fun exploration, and others were just things that management could think about someday building and maintaining.  Design is fun, but I like the technical work too of putting all those puzzle pieces of code together perfectly. I’d love to have my next employer set me up on the new javascript local servers that seems to be popular.  I never installed it because it wasn’t needed for my role at SF-in-progress. . . What sucks for me is the fequent experience of when I learn something cool and don’t get to use it. I want to re-learn unix since it’s been too long and I forgot more about unix than most designers ever learn.  I miss using GREP to search for files. That was fun times when I was young and had a Linux server on my home computer.
  • How do I, in a UX manager role,  talk to my boss the team leader about using Google Groups for team communication. related work. Here’s a slack conversation I stumbled upon while doing a retrospective review of my past work process. . .
  • my old graphic design and website portfolio on Flikr !  still looks great. . .https://flic.kr/s/aHsjpWajXd
  • My list of all links from the old website. . .http://stevewhetstone.com/downloads/index.html
    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/AAU_transcript.pdfWeb Application Design UI/UX Study
    A case study where best practices are implemented for designing a web address book. Includes competitive analysis, wireframes, use cases, user profiles and scenarios to pixel perfect mockups ready for production (85pages, 32Mbytes)
    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/Address_Book.pdfhttp://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/admin_letters_of_recommendation.pdf

    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/Amtrak_branding_guide.pdf

    Flash+AS2+XML+Paypal
    logic and programing: Sample from an early Flash inventory editing system demonstrating XML, arrays, URL Parameter passing, Paypal purchasing integration, functions and other basic (not object oriented yet) AS2. Still live and in use at www.ekologic.com or see the code by downloading. . .
    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/AS2_sample_for_Ekologic.pdf

    Flash + customize open source code base
    Other peoples code is fun to extend and modify.
    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/AS2_sample_from_SeaRetreats.pdf

    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/AS3_sample_for_portfolio_timeline.pdf

    Flash+AS3+XML+Video
    Flash ActionScript 3 advanced work: Sample from a flash video player. uses standardized XML techniques, event listeners, custom video component, timers and more.
    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/AS3_sample_for_video_portfolio_player.pdf

    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/brainbench_completetranscripts.pdf

    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/contents_master.jsp.pdf

    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/Font.zip

    Javascript + Inventory Management application
    Javascript logic and programing: Sample from an early javascript inventory editing system demonstrating arrays, functions and other basic javascript.
    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/javascript_for_Ekologic.pdf

    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/JohnDavis-RecommendationForSteveWhetsone_10-2010.pdf

    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/letters_of_recommendation.pdf

    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/Lila_postcards.pdf

    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/lodging.com revisions.pdf

    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/Memetic_design.pdf

    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/namechange.jpg

    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/outstanding_bond.jsp.pdf

    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/Philosophy.pdf

    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/reference_for_employment.pdf

    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/SV_website.pdf

    Debugging HTML Form validation:
    A detail focused example of troubleshooting a bug involving HTML, SQL, JavaScript validation and an Oracle Database.
    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/SW_Bugzilla.pdf

    Ecomm Center – Wrote user documentation, help files, promotional web pages, and print collateral. This was one of the high points from my work as head graphic designer for print and web at Trudeau Architects/Truarchs.com. Lots of complicated business information requirements were implemented at the software page flow level to meet the needs of facility management in 60 statewide locations using a secure web system.
    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/SW_capital_asset_management_system_manual.pdf

    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/SW_collapse_me_Javascript_jsp.pdf

    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/SW_deficiency_resolution_system_manual.pdf

    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/SW_dotComRecommendation.pdf

    JSP (backend) and Custom DOM (Document Object Model) Manipulation on Client Side Using Javascript: Sample from a flash video player. Uses standardized XML techniques, event listeners, custom video component, timers and more.
    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/SW_javascript_jsp_dom_sample.pdf

    Application Architecture Code
    using JSP and an Early MVC (Model View Controller) strategy: This is some older work of mine before the MVC paradigm was fully adopted. I designed this web app by reverse engineering legacy interleaf documents. At this time interleaf was longer supported, and I had to go to 3rd party boards just to get a users manual. It used to be the standard for publishing attractive designed reports using database information.
    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/SW_jsp_architecture_sample_2.pdf

    SQL:
    Simple .jsp code for working with a database. I’m very comfortable with this level of SQL, but I’m not a database specialist and generally just reuse and modify existing SQL as needed.
    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/SW_jsp_database_sample_1.pdf

    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/SW_vCard.vcf

    Visio flow for Application Architecture
    using JSP and an Early MVC (Model View Controller) strategy: This is some older work of mine before the MVC paradigm was fully adopted. I designed this web app by reverse engineering legacy interleaf documents. At this time interleaf was longer supported, and I had to go to 3rd party boards just to get a users manual. It used to be the standard for publishing attractive designed reports using database information.
    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/SW_visio_flow_diagram_vol1.pdf

    http://SteveWhetstone.com/downloads/type1_specimens.pdf

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Random Thoughts and Deep Thought Critique

October 2, 2016 by SteveW94103

Random Thoughts and Deep Thought Critique

Random Thoughts:

I should critique each idea or thought whether random or deep with a universal set of guidelines. [Notion, idea, theory, belief, conviction, dogma],[urgent, soon, roadmap, someday, future possibility] . . . What does Kaleel Jameson say?  I wish I had their training and research docs to read still.  I lost those in the move and miss them.  I could just google “best rubric for categorizing brainstorming ideas”. . . Yes lets try my offloaded memory (aka the internet) nothing obvious came up but I did stumble on this list I love of 50 digital education tools.  I wish I had a job where I could use this information and these tools. . . https://www.nwea.org/blog/2015/growing-list-50-digital-education-tools-apps-formative-assessment-success/ I loved that page and they had something I’ve been looking for. . . a brainstorming online app!  Yeah, this one looks good too. . . Coggle for collaborative brainstorm mapping looks awsome. . . https://coggle.it/ . . Coggle is awsome. I love their product and their design and their interactive first learning tips got me started great. I think they’re using joyride for the new user intro tour. the first time I do any action a little window pops up to tell me how it works and it seems to function and be triggered and styled using the joyride.js library.  Great learning solution for this product. I want a job that lets me use Coggle.it and also a job that lets me use joyride.js to make a new user intro tour of the UI and UI tip projects like Coggle has. If I had a job as UX design manager, I’d make a Coggle brainstorm diagram and invite the team to add to it.  Probably start off introducing it in a non-urgent topic and so they don’t experience their first use of Coggle during a rush urgent deadline when it would be unwelcome as a suggestion for team use. I like teaching and sharing enjoyable UX and ideas with people in general.  People often remark that I would make a great teacher and if could get a job making innovative UX for Teaching better, then I would be pleased.  Actually teaching people in person is fun too, but more in a live user experience lab sort of way.  It’s good to get raw data on how people learn and when I worked computer services help desk at Kinko’s I got several years of cumulative user experience lab by hands on helping people understand how to print or why that button doesn’t do what they think it should.  I know a trove of UX history of failures, like when the famed apple UX team made the foolish decision to make dragging your floppy disk icon into the trash can the method you use to have it returned for you for transportation and storage, instead of deleting your floppy disk.  “Floppy disks are not something you throw in the trash” was what smart UX designers said about apples decision in the UI/UX. . .

 

Deep thought:

I keep coming back this idea that consumers buy food products such on the basis of opportunity cost metrics.  This is reasonable for them but results in cognitive and other bias such as buying something convenient when you’d rather have something healthy. People don’t logically make eating choices based on logical arguments because the cognitive bias of desire and time discounting and evolution have wired us to choose what we eat based on a personal opportunity cost basis.  So lets go beyond that saying that “Consumers are not rational actors, they’re people!” and think about exactly how they do make decisions.   So what are some opportunity costs associated with food that we can change in our environment to nudge us into eating better. . . 1) What if we just take away your credit card and you can’t buy that candybar on the way out of the store because we’ve let you buy from our credit card company a smart card that will block the purchase of a candybar.  You’ll get hungrier, which is good motivation for you to get to work where you programmed your credit card to start working for food purchases and where you pre-orderes a salad with hard boiled eggs and cheese on the side for your 15 minute bunch break of the day.   Setting that all up and programing it may be inconvenient, but look at what we’ve achieved.  It’s not much much more convenient for you to eat healthy thanks to your commitment to program your credit card yesterday.  This is what’s known as a “commitment device” and I love commitment devices. A smart credit card would be programable so I could create my own environmental opportunities to eat or so I could limit my environmental opportunities to eat.  NO opportunity to buy snacks means I just stop wanting them or thinking about them after a while too.  This won’t result in a less happy world for me using this credit card, it just results in creating for me a shopping environment with fewer hidden costs.   That’s like an ecosystem or environment where fish encounter fewer traps and fewer lures with hooks.  I want to change my world and I want that credit card now.  Is there a market for this idea? The marketing would be awesome in our age of lifestyle brand association. 2) It makes more sense to discuss an economic supply and demand graph for the food products if we also consider an accessory graph for opportunity cost vs supply in looking for a pricing equilibrium point or maybe we need points.  Probably you’d want a 3Dimensional graph for understanding food customers with opportunity or convenience on a 3rd axis to supply and demand curves. .

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UI Sketches and design notes. – work process artifact

September 30, 2016 by SteveW94103

UI Sketches and design notes. – work process artifact

I stumbled upon some photos of my old office wall board sketches.  Interesting to look back at them

My design board at SFMTA
Out of sight is out of mind. I don’t believe you can have too much information posted on the walls. Half the time I look I get a news idea to add. More walls means more ideas.
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I work from design concept to code complete templates. . . Lets do a Sci-fi treatment on the logo. Page layout idea. Use Fitts law to support expanded hit target margins in CSS. List of JS frameworks on minimum tech maintenance skills requirement list for after I leave. My job is done when I turn the template over for production use and maintenance life cycle requirements are assured.

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Sungevity would be a nice place to work. . .

September 30, 2016 by SteveW94103

Sungevity would be a nice place to work. . .

Here’s what I think of the Sungevity User Experience Design Manager Career Role description. . .

I prefer thinking up a response in writing so I can take my time and play with the ideas more and edit them easily and share them easily.  I’m not a fan of mixed brainstorming without a record of the perfect phrases that get lost and can’t be leveraged or shared.  I am a fan of the creative strategy of forced writing as a method of brainstorming facilitation.  This is a stream of consciousness forced writing cover letter for your consideration. The rule for forced writing is you have to keep moving your fingers even if nothing smart comes out and then you edit it later to take out the garbage. I also like video recordings of key discussions and meetings to help me a lot with details and remote working practices appeal to me even though I like to go into an office to work.  The added affordance of a recording of meetings and idea generation sessions is that I can go back and study them to decide the best way to phrase arguments and retrieve brilliant ideas that might soon be forgotten instead of allowed to flourish and be expanded on by others later.  Another reason I want to address this job description in writing is so I can provide links to reference material related to each item in Sungevity’s Careers job description.

You can’t link to reference material in a conversation so I prefer to interview in a chat format or preferably a time shiftable collaborative discussion media like a google doc.  One thing for sure is I spell poorly when I’m working with ideas and I like not having to slow down to correct details in punctiation when the muses are dancing around my head calling me to share the discovered ideas for team approval. Feel free to correct or make changes to my spelling or my ideas in this document here. I like it when people make changes to my documents to make them better.  Here’s a link to the brainstorming document I created using this process for my SF-in-Progress team at Code For America and SFHack.   I like to cast a wide net of user story structured brainstorming for startup, as you’ll no doubt notice.  I’d like the chance to create a brainstorming document like this one for my team at Sungevity to discuss my hire if you’re open to exploring a hiring rubric I recommend.  .  . (sorry, just kidding, if you want to know my career role evaluation rubric you’ll have to interview me first. Maybe we can talk about an exchange of information on the topic of rubrics?. . )

I applied at Sungevity previously for the UX Designer position about 6 months ago. This Career position seems even better for me.  I have annotated your job description to give you the affordance of already having learned your own advertisement, you can recognize and refer to it conveniently because it’s a known existing schema for you.  This is also available as a google doc if you’d like and I’d be pleased for you to just edit in your review of my qualifications for the Career described.  Perhaps my preferred rubric for critiquing a candidate is structured and organized like the role description?   oops, LOL,  I just gave away my information on what kind of rubric I recommend for you.

Below copied from https://jobs.jobvite.com/sungevity/job/ojQL3fwH

Sungevity Careers

UI/UX MANAGER

Software Oakland, California


APPLY

Description

The Company

Sungevity is one of the world’s leading and fastest growing residential solar companies (I’d like to read up on your latest rooftop installation systems.  I read an article a while back on a new design for making rooftop canopies that allowed people to Barbecue under shade from the solar panels. that sound fun). Our success tracks to three priorities. First, we are obsessed with customer service (Me too! I feel that customer service is too frequently neglected as a resource for design and solution fitness evaluation.  It breaks my heart when the customer service reps know more about whats going wrong and how much inconvenience than the Code and design team. Customer service should be billing their work internally to their respective design departments.  Their needs to be a convenient two way information exchange between customer service dept. and design dept. Sorry if that was a little long winded, I needed to get that off my chest.)  and are committed to making the happiest customers in our, or any, industry(Lets talk shop about innovative “out of the box” strategic ideas to achieve happiness in UX).  Second, we are a technology-led business, well known for inventing Remote Solar Design, and leading the solar industry with software innovations that make going solar easier and cheaper.  And finally, our business is designed to partner and grow with leading organizations from Lowe’s to E.On, GE to Sierra Club. Sungevity currently operates in 14 US states, the Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. (the thing about you being large and successful I like the most is it means my good work will have more impact on making some good experiences for more people. I got excited by UX design to make peoples lives better and full of better designed experiences. )

Culture

Sungevity is a mission-driven business, and we combine our social commitment It says a lot that about Sungevity that you took the thought to mention social commitment. GE for comparison does not mention social commitment.  I’d rather work for a company that is attentive to social commitments 🙂 with a drive for top-notch professional execution and realism (I like that you understand the need evaluate realism in a candidate).  Our culture is fast-paced, passionate and fun.  We have a “no drama” environment.  We’re prepared for the fact that no two days will be remotely similar on this adventure (I’m looking forward to the entertaining variety. Boredom and a repetitive rut is a bigger concern on some jobs. Those are the jobs I try to avoid.  Ideally I’d like at least 30% of my week to use different task related skills. All photoshop and no wireframes make for a dull job. I’m glad I won’t have that problem with you.), and we are all-in committed to make the most of our incredible market opportunity,  ourselves and each other.(LOL, you forgot the word “for” in your writing.  Guess we both like to focus on ideation more than polishing the presentation. Guess we both approve when others improve anything we’ve created. I’ll fit right in!)

Diversity and Inclusion

Diversity is a core value at Sungevity. Diverse opinions, ideas, and experience push us, challenge us, and all our whole team to work better and smarter. We know that the more diverse our workforce is, the closer we are to achieving our mission of building the world’s most energized network of customer who power their lives with sunshine. We aim to provide an inclusive, empowering, and supportive work environment for individuals from all backgrounds and walks of life. (-SW: if you would support this by letting me use in our brainstorming critique rubrics, the communication classification systems for better cross cultural communication clarity as outlined by the Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group. Power differential effects in teams is minimized when ideas are formally and explicitly classified in importance level by asking the question. . . “Is this a [first impression notion, a considered idea, an operational assumption, or a conviction/dogma]”? Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group has the best strategies for corporate inclusion practices, IMO.  PS. I worked on a diversity inclusive collection of Persona’s for national use by all Code for America divisions as part of a hackathon and we won a prize for it! Maybe You’ll let me use them on the job for you?  I am so tired of designing UX with boring white male techie persona’s for our heuristics.  PS. can I see the user persona profiles based on my team members for consideration? I’ll show you my user persona profile from SF-In-Progress in exchange. )  

Position Mission 

The UI/UX manager will be an experienced software design leader who can grow and develop a team, drive big ideas and create brand design solutions to meet business goals and requirements. YES. This seems to be what I end up doing to some degree on all my jobs throughout my career.  I like to define and clarify objectives and roadmaps and governance theories are always on my leisure reading list.  I enjoy writing specification outlines and developing a Trello board.  I’ve never formally had the role of managing a design team though, luckily I just have to facilitate or participate right? Do we have a dedicated scrum master or is this your way of saying I am the dedicated scrum master or their isn’t one? Can you clarify my team structure for my consideratio?

Outcomes

  • Build and implement a design roadmap by utilizing design thinking concepts and the latest trends in UI/UX design? YES. I’d like to tell you about my roadmap and product lifecycle planing skills.  Party city page and feature lifecycle code planning.  work sample from SFMTA and SFGov work.  work example from of roadmap to the future at end of SPATS document to the board that impressed my boss Jerome so much.
  • Lead a team to ensure consistent, effective, and engaging visual design across the Sungevity software platform (mobile and web)? YES. I would lead like in my google docs onboarding page for project in a box and SF-in-progress.
  • Increase customer engagement as well as reduce training times by utilizing and applying design thinking concepts to UI/UX design.? YES. let tell you about party city where I. . . and also my sketches I photographed for muni logos.

Duties

  • Collaborate with key business stakeholders and Product Management to design new features and exciting applications and platform updates? YES. that was a major focus on all my jobs.  [since there’s so many to choose from, pick a company that I haven’t talked about for this example. use this topic answer strategically to cover my any relevant elements of my career history not yet highlighted]
  • Design and develop wireframes, storyboards, prototypes, mockups, user flows, process flows and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas? YES.
  • Engage with brand teams to ensure a consistent look and feel across all the customer and partner touch points? YES.
  • Design for a cross-screen, cross-platform environment that utilizes web, tablet, and smartphone to execute a multitude of tasks? YES.
  • Provide leadership, direction, and mentorship for a team of UX Designers; lead creative and holistic thinking across diverse product releases, platforms, and devices? YES.
  • Deliver a UX vision, along with a plan for evolutionary, iterative updates, that actualize the larger vision over time? YES.
  • Build strong relationships and operating rhythms with leaders inside and outside their core product team to efficiently implement user experiences that are cohesive, inclusive, and well-informed? YES.
  • Foster culture and principles within the group, while setting new standards in executional and operational excellence? YES.
  • Collaborate with other User Experience Designers to craft consistent interactions and behaviors cross-application, cross-platform, to craft and evolve the way customers and internal users engage with the Sungevity platform? YES.
  • Produce materials for the entirety of the product lifecycle, from wireframes, clickable prototypes, to hi-fi comps of features and functionality? YES.
  • Conduct Usability Studies to constantly improve our user experiences? YES. finally, someone will let me do this. I have solicited feedback on many occasions. I always desperately want more opportunities for hands on User experience observations.  You’re going to hear a lot from me about how we can use mouse tracking on a per user basis for improving our product by replaying our sample customer journeys.  I care about and enjoy thinking about the time differentials in completing various form elements as an indicator of general user computer proficiency for persona segmentation of our metrics and user experience statistical data.
  • Present and justify designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and stakeholders? YES.
  • Participate in user research and evaluate user feedback? YES. SF-in-progress, We-Vote, SFMTA,
  • Ability to make the case for better solutions to various stakeholders? YES.

Competencies

  • Customer Focus: Dedicated to exceeding the expectations and requirements of customers; proven experience in delivering delightful customer interactions? YES.
  • Communication: Clearly and succinctly communicates in writing and public speaking. Ability to present to senior executives with expertise and confidence? YES.
  • Process Management: Good at figuring out the processes necessary to get things done; knows how to organize people and activities; proven ability to drive for simplicity? YES.
  • Results Driven: Proven ability to act responsibly when empowered to make decisions, can be counted on to meet goals successfully; is constantly and consistently a top performer? YES.
  • Manages Ambiguity: Comfortable working in shifting, fast-paced environment. Creates structure within ambiguity effectively? YES.
  • Diversity & Inclusion- The ability to account for one’s own and other’s world views and identify opportunities, make decisions, and resolve conflicts in ways that optimizes differences for better, longer lasting, and more creative solutions? YES. this is my special passion.  I’m an active supporter and knowledge authority in this area and frequently discuss this topic.  Kaleel Jameson Consulting group has some excellent training on the subject for corporations and I highly recommend their principles,  methodology and approach.  They gave me free copies of some of their higher level training materials for free when I was working at kinko’s copy center and making copies for them.  I also worked customer service at kinko’s counters in the computer services dept designing promotional materials with customers and resolving customer service problems.  I know the value of input from customer service.
  • Team Player: Understands demands and delivers mutual accountability? YES. My google document system for awarding credit for contrbutions served as a postive motivation for encouraging teamwork and contributions.  Every good idea is noticed and rated for advancement towards review and evaluation with meta for: Roadmap, SWOP, Feasibility, and and a checklist for production production.  Since SF-in-progress was an all volunteer unpaid organization, internal team building and contribution motivational systems were crucial in maintaining momentum. We used our own selves as persona’s for evaluation of our motivational system.  Imagine if reviewing work was like a game or a contest to see who could make the most insightful comment and get the most up votes for their critique? I like to have goals and expectations written out and brainstormed on a semi-regular basis and am excited by alternative accountability systems such as Holocracy.  Team coding is a practice I approve of and think structured discussion process is a joy for User Experience designers.  The UX of the UX meeting is always so interestingly meta. I love recursion in process analysis.

Skills

  • Advanced experience in (Interaction Design, New Media Design and Graphic Design)? YES.
  • Demonstrable history of delivering sophisticated, yet easy-to-use products & User Centric Design? YES. SPATS – the Strategic Plan Action Tracking System enhancements I made were praised for allowing major stakeholders to do things in seconds that used to take minutes or even hours.  measurably reduced internal labor efforts by several times the hours I worked on the project.  sophisticated SEO Optimization with Semantic HTML master page standardization for new season at Party City and easy to use first implementation of expanded hit zones and linked but visually separated highlights in graphic design image maps.
  • Experience with graphic, mobile, responsive and web designing across multiple platforms.? YES. but mostly at a prototype code and visual mockup and design concept areas.  I don’t use android or more advanced phone features fluently.  I’m not a power user in the mobile sphere, which is maybe a good think if your looking for someone who can do a “new user” evaluation at a professional level and not suffer from the “curse of knowledge” problem that can beset cutting edge technology power users. from a mobile skills perspective, I am your typical customer and can describe how a NOOB understands your UI and what works and what doesn’t from a NOOB perspective.  I have never looked at your product, so I’m saving my NOOB perspective for you and it’s only something you get to learn once before your forgetting that they confused you the first time and why.  What I do is record my New User Experience for you as a part of the interview and to convince you to hire me.  Please send me a link for me to critique and review as a new user.
  • Experience defining products in an Agile and Scrum framework? YES, but not with experienced team members. Me and the SF-in-Progress project leader were talking about a formal scrum for our team and we used some parts of Agile and Scrum.  The difficulty came because everyone was volunteer and intermittent variable rate contributors.  So the Graphic designer who wanted to enjoy crafting the look and feel would be at a different scrum frequency than the web developer who contributed more hours each week and was eager to finish off the project. My neighbors a scrum master who can help me out with advice if It’s a central role for me, but I want a team that’s experienced in Agile and Scrum to support my knowledge gaps and NOOB skills. 
  • Competency in Adobe Creative Cloud suite of tools (e.g., Photoshop, Illustrator), wireframing tools (e.g., Balsamic), prototyping tools (Sketch 3)? YES, competent, but out of practice. need to warm up and refresh speed of operations to remember shortcuts and unlearn newest features. I’ve dabbled in a lot of different wireframe and prototype tools and switched tools on almost every project and never gotten really fast and proficient with any single one of them.  I’m a jack of all trades, but master of none in this category. There’s only so much time and I’ve neglected and missed using my production skills recently. Hopefully, you’ll give me an excuse to get back to the joy of rapid production. 
  • UI design skills with a strong portfolio? YES. no. I hate my portfolio. Doesn’t everyone from Academy of Art University learn to find the flaws and then obsess over them? I like to say good things about other peoples portfolio though and I have a talent for spotting talent. I can see a lot of talent in my portolio, like my User Experience Design Class team produced an excellent collaboration for the “blue book project” which was a design for an online address book. . .  Doesn’t everyone.  See my college level graphic design portfolio here. I can do all the fine design stuff and I hate typography and put usability and clarity ahead of style.  I lean more towards a functional utility focused designer than I am a Style and fashion focused designer. I think of myself more as a visual engineer than a visual designer.  That’s probably good for this job.
  • Strong experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and medium/high-fidelity prototypes? YES.
  • Fluency in Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch or other visual design, wire-framing and prototyping tools? YES.
  • Proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for rapid prototyping a plus? YES.
  • Excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to user-system interaction? YES.
  • Outstanding brainstorming and whiteboarding skills? YES. Brainstorming is my forte. link to my favorite brainstorm work for SF-In-Progress that I can share publicly.  Link to Whiteboard sample ro my sketches on graph paper work product samples.
  • Up to date with the latest UI trends, techniques, and technologies? YES.

Compensation and Benefits

We pay 100% of our employee benefits costs and offer healthcare plans, long-term and short-term disability, life insurance, dental, vision and 401K. We pride ourselves on having the best compensation package in the industry.

Sungevity strives for a multi-cultural work environment; diversity is a core value.  AA/EOE.  We are a Fair Chance Employer. (I feel the same way.)

Location 

Sungevity is located in the historic Jack London Square Area of Oakland, CA. Served by BART, Amtrak and Ferry Service (SW: Great I can bicycle to the ferry from home and from work in just a few minutes and I get the exercise benefits for free instead of sitting in a crowd. Nothing else starts a day off as good as a bicycle ride to work in my opinion and the ferry ride is excellent for meditating on the opportunities to pursue for the day ahead. I’ve had some of my best ideas on Ferry’s on the way to work. One Idea I came up with was for a bicycle highway over Market street to the ferry station.  I imagined a weather shielded tube for bicycles to ride 3 lanes in each direction.  Also a wind design analysis so that any ambient wind would be converted into a backdraft for the bicycles, so they would be pushed continuously by a fresh breaze blowing them forward.  To top it all off (literally, pun intended) we should have solar panels on top of the tubes to generate electricity for lighting the tubes and run other electronics such as speed monitors or default public accessible security cameras.  Actually just lots of regularly spaced security cameras would be the easiest security and safety solution for a suspension bridge for bicicles running over Market Street to the Ferry Terminal.  Well anyway, maybe If you give me a job we should make a sales pitch to the city for Building the first Solar Powered Smart Bicycle Highway and bring san francisco into the lead as a world class bicycle commuting city of the future.   Can you give me the job to develop this application for Sungevity? You seem to have the right focus and capabilities to Make this happen and make my commute to work even better. I love my rent controlled students live work studio on Market street but I’d love it even more if I could bicycle to the ferry building in a futuristic suspended bicycle tube highway over Market Street. i wouldn’t have to stop for lights and the drivers wouldn’t have to share the road with anyone but pedestrians all at a low cost to the city for construction and design.  Also, if Sungevity pitches this idea, could they include in their design 4th floor high access so I don’t have to take the elevator and can just coast down hill to the ferry building at the first floor level.  It always helps to be bicycling down hill.  Oh, and also, maybe pick some tall building near the ferry building and put in a solar powered elevator to lift the bicycles to the top and then run an express high speed downhill bicycle highway tube down to ground level at the castro for rush hour peak overflow use? ).   We also provide a locked bike room for our employees use(Very thoughtful of you. thanks, I’ll use it. . . Now what kind of electric bicycle should I get for the Bicycle Highway tube commute or do I even need one. . .Maybe build the top parts of the cylindrical horizontal tube out of rolled chainlink fence for durability and affordability in low use areas? ).

Please apply to www.sungevity.com/green-jobs

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(NOTE TO SELF: remember to send Kimo a link to this so I can get his review of my job application interview approach.

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