Mobile Admin is a push-centric notification application, that allows Salesforce administrators to easily viewprioritize daily tasks, monitor server notifications, and complete their assigned requests directly from within the application.

This project was a winner in the 2012 Salesforce Mobile day competition. In this event, employees formed small agile teams to conceptualize future products/features, and presented them to the executive team.

Role | Lead Visual Designer
Project | Internal Mobile Day Event
Client | Salesforce
Date | Mar 2012
Status | In Development

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AppBuilder is an application interface targeted towards developers of the Salesforce.com platform. A user-friendly interface was created to help developers create new applications, or manange and edit existing applications.

A new user interface was developed to help improve efficiency and productivity within a developer-focused environment.

Role | Creative Direction
Client | Salesforce
Date | Jan 2012
Status | In Development

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This custom designed book was created as a christmas gift to my fiancée last year. The 80-page book features favorite recipes while experimenting in the kitchen, documents notable culinary experiences, and also highlights personal moments together. The layout was designed using Adobe Creative Suite, and published by online printing vendor Blurb.com.

Role | Creative Direction
Date | Dec 2009
Image Credits | All images taken with a Ricoh GR 2
Status | Published by Blurb.com, 2 copies initial print run

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With over 21.5 million unique users per month, Yahoo! Fantasy Sports is consistently ranked #1 among all other sports sites in the industry, including top competitor ESPN.

Yahoo! Sports offers various fantasy games for all the major sports. The fantasy sports style guide was developed to ensure proper and consistent usage for commonly used elements (grid structure, navigation, logo usage, color palette, fonts, icons, etc...) throughout the site.

Role | Lead Designer
Client | Yahoo! Fantasy Sports
Date | Jun 2010
Status | Ongoing

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A design of a new Y! Games template (and associated back-end tools) was needed to be able to create and deliver everything from editorial content to video page blogs. A visually exciting design was developed with the following goals in mind: scalability, flexible architecture, support for significant traffic, and utilizing a common toolset so multiple editorial teams can add supoort if necessary.

Role | Lead Designer
Client | Yahoo! Games
Date | Jan 2010
Status | Launch date: Q3 2010

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This start-up venture provides a social utility that connects people with potential roomates. The website would also serve as an application to set up calendar events, organize shopping and chore lists, and bill sharing activities among roommates within a household.

Role | Creative Direction
Client | RoomieLife LLC
Date | Jun 2008
Status | In Progress

Yahoo! Sports Fantsy Football Live is the world's first live and interactive fantasy football webcast. The emmy nominated original video program features live streaming video, live chat, and weekly updated player trends data. Nominated for a webby award.

Role | Lead Designer
Client | Yahoo! Sports
Date | Jun 2010
Status | Launch date: Sep 2010

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The Fantasy Draft client is a stand-alone application used to draft players to an individual's fantasy team. This app is often used well in advance of the season start date, and so for many users it is the very first impression of the Yahoo! Fantasy brand each year. A number of features were significantly updated including: overall user interface and graphical appearance, enhanced drag and drop queue interface, enhanced player stats/data integration, improved player search functionality, and interactive sound cues.

The design of the application has proved to be very successful, and has effectively been transitioned to all of the major fantasy games: NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL

Role | Lead Designer
Project | Yahoo! Fantasy Draft Application
Media | Adobe Flash/Flex
Date | Feb 2006 - present
Status | In Progress

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Web site and logo identity design for JAZZ Connection, the official fan engagement web site for the Utah Jazz NBA team. Studionaka teamed up with Gaga Sports & Entertainment for all aspects of the design process/production from concept development to managing design reviews and final hand-off of all artwork files.

Role | Creative Direction
Client | Utah Jazz
Date | Jul 2009
Status | Launch date: Oct 2009

Design mocks not only shape the right discussion at a sales presentation meeting, it may also help to avoid the wrong ones. A series of co-branded concepts were created and presented to Volkswagen with the goal of helping improve visibility and monetization for the upcomng 2009 TDI Race cup series.

Role | Lead Visual Designer
Project | VW TDI cup Sales mock
Date | Dec 2008
Status | In Progress

BasementSF is a promotion company catering to the urban nightlife scene in the San Francisco Bay Area. The client required a website to help promote and allow users to easily sign up on their event guestlist. The website also features an RSS data feed that updates daily news content, as well as an integrated music playlist and photo gallery. In addition, promotional print flyers were designed and offset printed for local in-store promotions.

Role | Creative Director/Lead Designer
Project | Web Site Branding & Promotion
Client | BasementSF
Date | Feb 2008
Status | Launched

Sometimes typography is all you need to communicate your ideas effectively, but to deliver the message precisely, you need to make sure that the type is expressive enough. Sometimes the result is crazy, sometimes beautiful, but often just different from things we’re used to. In this portrait, type was used to create a unique Valentines card insert.

Project | Valentines Day Card
Media | Laser Print on Transparent Vellum Parchment
Date | Feb 2008