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Current Projects

Title: Film Authors Match Game

Client: Dr. Bodle, Professor of Communication Studies at MSJ

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Object Description: matching game where player clicks on two game cards to reveal their faces. When two cards match they disappear, otherwise they turn back over, ready for user to try again to find a match. When each card is clicked, significant information related to that card appears in the information boxes on the side. Game’s over when all matches have been made.

Client's Goal: for students to learn about key movie directors and their films, important information about the directors, and related details about the films (time period, genre, etc.).

JC Design's Role: project design, user interface design, web graphics, Flash ActionScripting, CSS, xhtml

Outcomes: classic memory game captures the excitement and magic of the cinema. The visual design features cards displaying photos of each director and powerful graphics from each film. The game tracks how many guesses it takes to successfully complete all matches, encouraging users to play again and again to improve their score. Game succeeds in engaging users to establish relationships that situate films in larger contexts including: attribution, film history, film grammar and vocabulary.

Current Projects

Title: Media Conglomerates R Us

Client: Dr. Bodle, Professor of Communication Studies at MSJ

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Object Description: Drag-n-drop game where the player must drop the correct holding under its corresponding media conglomerate parent. Each property must be correctly aligned in the flowchart with both the media type and parent in order to win the game. When user places a media property under the correct parent company, the game locks that holding in place and notifies users that they are correct.

Client's Goal: a fun way for students to become aware of the extent of the concentration of media ownership.

JC Design's Role: Project design, user interface design, web graphics, Flash ActionScripting, CSS, xhtml

Outcomes: game appeals through bright, colorful, clean, and engaging design. Game establishes the relationship between a parent media company and its holdings, thereby drawing attention to the integrated structure of the media industry. The game tabulates wrong guesses to encourage repeat plays to improve user scores while learning the material at hand.

Current Projects

Title: Course Syllabus

Client: Dr. Bodle, Professor of Communication Studies at MSJ

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Object Description: interactive course syllabus, which includes sections such as course requirements and course schedule that open as pop-overs. The windows can be scrolled, resized or collapsed. More than one window can be opened at a time, allowing students to interact and compare information.

Client's Goal: an online syllabus where students can quickly get to and focus on key sections

JC Design's Role: User interface design, web graphics, Flash ActionScripting, CSS, xhtml

Outcomes: Design of the syllabus helps students interact with course requirements. The project also provides a template for interactive timelines, where key events can be clicked to open information windows as pop-overs pertaining to timeline events.

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Title: APLS Website

Client: Association for Politics and Life Sciences

Project Description: Academic association website and logo creation.

Client's Goal: organization wanted a new look for their website and logo that was clean, polished, and would give them a professional edge over competing organizations. They also needed help organizing their content in a way that was user-friendly and beneficial to their members.

JC Design's Role: freelance web designer for the organization, web graphics, user interface design, logo design, CSS, xhtml

Outcomes: fully-compliant website designed to meet web 2.0 standards. Created entirely using CSS, with a fluid layout and emphasis on the content rather than heavy graphic materials.

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Title: Company Website

Client: Road Rebel Entertainment Touring

Project Description: B-to-B company website. The site is entertainment focused and highly interactive, offering some game play to the user--primarily entertainment-based clientele.

Client's Goal: company wanted a non-traditional Flash-based website that expressed the attitude and non-traditional philosophy of this start-up entertainment-based company. The site goal was to provide more of an experience rather than to be content-driven; to be utilized as a form of advertising to help establish an online presence for the company.

JC Design's Role: In-house designer for the company, web design, including all web graphics and scripting: xhtml, CSS, and Flash ActionScripting.

Outcomes: website features an opening Flash animation of entering into a dark concert coliseum with flashing lights in action with a Road Rebel mascot as host, presenting the many features of the Road Rebel Company. Our host then jet packs it with the gusto of a James Bond adventure film into the many environments of the company, where the user can explore and learn more about the offerings at RR.

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Title: Company Promotional Material

Client: Road Rebel Entertainment Touring

Project Description: promotional material for a start-up B-to-B entertainment touring company based in Southern California. Pieces included animated emails, party e-vites, training slide shows, in-house motivational shorts, company newsletter, print materials, company t-shirts, patches, and more.

Client's Goal: RR wanted to brand its company image to express its non-traditional philosophy and rock-n-roll attitude, which would convey to the entertainment community that it was youthful, edgy, yet professional and inviting.

JC Design's Role: in-house designer for the company, project innovation, web design, graphic design, scripting languages: Flash ActionScripting, CSS, xhtml.

Outcomes: design materials supported a comprehensive branding campaign that succeeded in conveying various attributes of the non traditional company in a competitive field.

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Title: Bowling Kiosk User Interface

Client: Bikini Vending / MyMart Inc

Project Description:user interface for a bowling kiosk found in bowling alleys across North America. Kiosk interface was composed of four brief animations communicating a new, hip image of the sport, plus several layout pages containing the content of the kiosks. Additional promotional materials were created to support the new campaign, such as posters and gaming cards.

Client's Goal: interactive kiosk company in Southern California wanted a user interface for its bowling kiosks that communicated the fun and excitement of bowling in order to debunk notions that it has become an outmoded or outdated sport.

JC Design's Role: freelance designer for the company, web graphics, supporting print design, Flash ActionScripting and animation, campaign concept

Outcomes: bowling kiosk and promotional posters combine hip retro flare with the high-energy excitement of extreme sports, remarketing bowling as a hip rediscovered sport.

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Title: Paris Kiosk User Interface

Client: Bikini Vending / MyMart Inc

Project Description: user interface for a Paris-themed kiosk found in travel agencies, hotels, and various tourist hotspots in the US and Paris. The kiosk features four animations promoting the romance of Paris, with several layout pages that contain the primary content of the kiosks.

Client's Goal: kiosk company in Southern California wanted a user interface for its Paris kiosks that appealled to American tourists in Paris.

JC Design's Role: freelance designer for the company, web graphics, supporting print design, Flash ActionScripting and animation, campaign concept

Outcomes: layouts and animations for a series of Paris kiosks and promotional posters reflected the romance of the city while being lively, youthful and fashionable. Project adapted the US based company’s content to the expectations of Americans traveling in Paris.