Current Projects

UX and Front-End Development

UX Interactive Prototyping for a VR-Enabled ESL App

Complete UX process for researching, designing, and testing a virtual reality app designed to help students learn a new language (LLA prototype process page).

Educational Insights User Research

UX research including card-sorting, to tell what users want from a website.

UX Deliverables

Samples of user diagrams, interaction and information architecture, wireframes, wireflows, prototypes for various clients.

LegendVR WebVR Real Estate UX Strategy

UX in VR research and development, plus project management for a Web-VR based real estate application created by LegendVR, part of effects house Legend3D in Los Angeles. (WebVR app process page).

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VR & AR Development on GitHub

WebVR Mini

Code demonstration showing how to implement virtual reality using the WebVR API. Programmed in JavaScript without a framework, directly in WebGL. Check the Github Site or see and online demo.

WebVR with BabylonJS

Code demonstration showing how to implement WebVR using the BabylonJS game engine. Programmed with patches to overcome limitations in WebVR support for HTC Vive (On GitHub).

WebVR Feature Detector

A Modernizr-style detector, specifically for WebVR applications, with graceful decay supporting older browsers and the WebVR Polyfill library.

WebVR Presentations

2016 presentation on the case for WebVR developed for Los Angeles User Experience Professionals (UxPaLa) group and the Los Angeles WebVR Meetup group.

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Server-Side Development

WordPress, CMS and LMS

I've helped multiple clients create WordPress front-end design and back-end code. I'm an expert in Content Management Systems (CMS) and Learning Management Systems (LMS).

Green Boilerplate Initializr (PHP/MySQL Dev)

Database and database tools for Green Boilerplate browser data, exports JSON and PHP arrays for use with Green Boilerplate framework. Authored in PHP and MySQL. On GitHub.

Front-End Coding Projects

More examples for front-end JavaScript coding, along with some back-end PHP/MySQL projects. CMS Projects are on a separate page).

Cohort Convert
(PHP/MySQL Dev)

A project developed using PHP/MySQL which converts life-stage statistics into generational cohorts. On GitHub.

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Sustainable Web Design

Sustainable Virtual Design

My blog centers on how to make the web more efficient in energy consumption and sustainable in terms of user experience (Blog Link).

Sustainable UX Presentations

Link to my talk at the Sustainable UX conference (streaming YouTube video).

Sustainable Book Editor

Tim Frick of MightyBytes has a great book on web sustainability, and I contributed to several portions of the manuscript (Amazon link.).

Green Boilerplate

A design and code framework for creating websites with minimal carbon footprints. Feature client and server-side negotiation to minimize transfer of assets (on Github.).

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Other Projects

Published Books & eBooks

Books on the web, streaming media, coding for the web, and the Millennial Generation from my Amazon Author page.

Squoak Engine (OpenGL C++ Orrery)

Before working in WebGL and WebVR, I learned about OpenGL game design by building a solar system simulation in C++ and OpenGL using standard Visual Studio, in Win32 without additional frameworks (not online).

Historical Web Work (1994)

Link to some older projects, including the original 1990s version of the modern Kaleidospace website. To see the original correctly, shrink your browser to 1990s screen size!.

Book Covers

I"m not a graphic designer by trade, but here's an example of a book cover for, Schizophrenics I Have Known and Loved, one of several for author Opaline Marks (get paperback or Kindle version on Amazon).

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