LiveCounseling.com contacted me in need of some usability help.  They have a wonderful product, but their design needed a little bit of work.  We started slow with a rework of the page with their current design, and that quickly turned into a “lets do a full redesign”.  Above is one of the first redesign mocks of the project.

Since Live Counseling is a up and running company, we had to put the redesign on hold and bust out some new products.  One of the first was a free chat interface.

More to come soon…

I had the privilege to work with Telligent on this project.  They have done a lot of work with dell.com, and needed some help on the community section of dell’s new redesign.  Like most corporate computer companies, it just needed to be clean and simple, but still scream dell.  This project like most, is on-going and is still in production.

Plug is a product that everyone is going to want to have in their homes. It’s super top secret right now, but I’ll let you know all the juicy details as soon as it goes live.

Pitch work

I’ve wanted to make this Firefox extension for some time now, and wanted to mock up how I wanted it to look and work.  The basic idea is when you get a new email, rather than having to change applications, a message could slide down right on your Firefox window.  You could then reply to the message, and carry on with your day.

You might only be saving seconds each time, but throughout the day if you get as many emails as I do.  You’re saving a lot of time.

If there are any developers out there that would like to work with me on this project, please hit me up.

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Gurutoy was an idea that Brad Suzuki had 3 years ago.  A way to give people a catalyst to find new and creative information visually.Brad had a tough time finding someone who could turn his vision into a reality.  This was until he met me.  After a month and a half of design and development Gurutoy.com is now live.  It has a clean yet vibrant interface, which puts the emphasis on the photos. The content is people powered, allowing users to have the say in what photos/visuals represents the sites they promote.

Gurutoy.com

About Gurutoy
The concept of Gurutoy emerged in December 2005. We wanted to construct a more organized way of searching that was fresh and new. The idea was to create a virtual art gallery of website links that would be searchable thru keywords and phrases. All content will be uploaded by users. You tell us what you like out there on the internet. Another intention was to promote creativity, uploaded pictures can be anything deemed meaningful for attracting someone to click on to the site link.

Become a member and search other user’s favorite websites that they’ve uploaded. With Gurutoy, you can discover websites you never knew existed or reference back to your favorites. Gurutoy is meant to be a fun, easy way to search for websites, powered by the people to give search back to the people.

Launch Website

A complete overhaul on Madskill.com.  They had a site that was a bit dated, and wanted something fresh that showed off their humble spirit and their local flavor.

About Madskill

Madskill is a creative consulting firm dedicated to the cultivation and development of forward thinking ideas. We develop, create, and implement innovative ways to communicate. The most brilliant and profound message is useless if unheard, making the chosen media just as important as the message itself.

We understand that change is the only constant in every aspect of our world. This constant change is what drives us to transcend the norms and break all creative limitations. From fundamental tools to the most advanced technology, we view everything as a canvas to express our creativity.

Simply put, we MAKE THINGS HAPPEN… and we enjoy every bit of it.

Some of our Clients

Scion Hawaii
Smithsonian Institute
Turtle Bay Resort
Contemporary Museum of Hawaii
Hyatt Regency Waikiki Resort and Spa
McDonalds
DVS Shoe Company
Waikiki Shopping Plaza
Panasonic

Launch Website

Domestic Violence Clearing House Honolulu needed a site to educate teens about domestic abuse.This was a tough project.  1 for the topic and 2 because teens have such small attention spans.  Not to mention all of the different ways people can be involved in abuse.  What we came up with was a youth oriented design, with a pretty cool “help a friend” feature.

Text anonymous abuse information to your friends:  You simple put in your friends, parent, family members cell phone number, and we send a message with the subject “Abuse is not normal…you don’t have to deal with it”.  The message would contain the process of getting help, as well as contact information to call and get face to face help through the organization.

This project was fullfilling and I hope it helps a lot of teens in Hawaii.

Launch Site

Another aspect of the project was to create a cohesive flow between where the teens are to where the help information is.  So we created them a myspace profile page, that matched the design of the new site.

Launch Myspace

Feedblendr.com lets you combine multiple feeds into one clean coded feed. Beau Lebens wanted a clean and easy to use interface for this web app.

Red was the color of choice by the client, and I created a very clean, web 2.0 ui. Below you can read a little bit more about Feedblendr.

FeedBlendr takes the feeds you give it, pulls the individual entries from each of them, attempts to sort them in date order (combined across all feeds) and then provides you with a new, blended feed of all entries. This system was written from the ground up using the programming language PHP. I’m also using MySQL to manage the feed information on the backend, and FeedBlendr is hosted on the wonderful DreamHost. Oh, and the subscribe page uses the icons from Feed Icons and OPML Icons. The blog, this page, Tips and Contact are all managed using the wonderful, open-source blogging engine WordPress.

In case you were wondering, my name (the guy who made this) is Beau Lebens. My main website is Dented Reality, and I do all sorts of projects like this one. This visual interface of this site was designed by my good friend Ray Hernandez and coded up by me in my spare time (around my day-job, which takes up way too many hours in the day).

Was going to be the second site in the Beau Lebens feed family. It never made it live, but the design was just as clean as feedblendr.

A movie review wordpress theme for Shane Semmler, a hawaiian based movie expert.  Not yet live…but hopefully soon.