The Communication Studio LLC

The Web Gets Real

The 00's
The 90's

By the mid-90's the graphical Web had caught the imagination of the world.The interactive online dream was still alive - and evolving - on the internet. The Web eventually re-emerged as a more mature environment - in part defined by the emergence of the UI-oriented disciplines that are the origins of .

We began to look at the usability arena as both an Art and a Science.

The Web Gets Down to Business

Despite the bursting of the The Internet Bubble in 2001, even traditional businesses still continued to move their enterprises toward the Web platform.

One of The Challenges Ahead is to effectively integrate User Experience into the conventional Corporate IT milieu.

My primary design toolset now includes Dreamweaver, Contribute, Fireworks, CSS Stylesheets, DHTML, Javascript and Flash and Ajax techniques.

I've designed effective UI management strategies for development teams on a range of popular platforms, such as ASP, JSP, .NET, PHP, SharePoint, and Java Server Faces.

UxP Becomes Business-like

Players in the interactive arena must address integration and infrastructure-related issues. Business, Techside and Marketing liaise about about how to make User Experience part of their total solution.

That's why we need to think of UxP as a Business

During this period I focused on financial market applications because they offered the greatest interactive design challenges: Complex workflows, a well-defined business case, rich functionality, multi-channel strategies, and the integrated "portal".

Success is based on understanding How It All Fits Together.

Making IT Work

Anyone who wants to compete in the interactive space must understand how the User Experience Practice fits into their organization.

It's a delicate dance: Evangelism and Education are a big part of the solution.

The role of the professional is to articulate and advocate the vision for the role that's emerging within the enterprise.

It's A Manifesto of Sorts.